The chairman of the standing committee of the Nationwide Meeting additionally talked about Kang Seong’s title, in addition to judicial officer Park Joo-min and political affairs officer Kim Byeong-ki.

Democratic Occasion: “We won’t respect current age conventions”
Over-defense camouflage Cho Seung-rae, Kim Hyun-Choi Min-hee
Hamapyeong, together with Park Beom-gye and Kim Seong-hwan, industrial and industrial camouflage chiefs
Considerations throughout the social gathering: “Are you saying you’ll not cooperate in any respect?”

It has been reported that the Democratic Occasion of Korea has established a coverage to not contemplate ‘age’ as a prime precedence when allocating standing committee chairs within the twenty second Nationwide Meeting. Till now, standing committee chairs have been divided so as of age for 3 or extra phrases, however this time, if they’re elected to a few or extra phrases, they may prioritize experience and expertise somewhat than age. On this present development, individuals from the ‘hard-core pro-Myung (pro-Lee Jae-myung) faction’ are being talked about as main candidates for the chairman of the standing committee. Even throughout the social gathering, they mentioned, “Experience is a relative normal,” and added, “Following the ground chief and the speaker of the Nationwide Meeting, even the chairman of the standing committee is just a ‘hard-core’ individual.” There are considerations that “if we solely take a look at this as a normal, does this imply that there can be no cooperation in any respect?”

● “We won’t comply with age conventions when allocating standing chairpersons.”

A key member of the Democratic Occasion’s flooring mentioned on the 14th, “As we now have divided the standing committee chairs so as of age, there have been circumstances the place individuals took on the chairmanship of a standing committee that they’ve by no means served earlier than. We’ll not comply with that follow,” and added, “We’ll obtain instant outcomes based mostly on our experience and expertise.” “We now have a agency precept of distributing standing committee chairs based mostly on those that can accomplish that,” he mentioned. The aim is to make use of as a normal what number of main payments the standing committee can deal with. One other official additionally mentioned, “Particularly within the case of standing committees that the Democratic Occasion should safe, such because the Laws and Judiciary Committee, a robust individual will be appointed because the chairman, even when solely symbolically, no matter age.” The secretariat of every standing committee, which was primarily held by re-elected lawmakers, additionally plans to prioritize experience over age.

Beforehand, the Democratic Occasion’s flooring management accomplished the gathering of hopeful standing committee members for the twenty second basic election by the tenth, and plans to finish distribution as early as this weekend. It’s anticipated that it will likely be later than this as a result of the standing committee chairman should take into consideration the progress of the negotiations with the ruling social gathering on composition of the Nationwide Meeting, however throughout the social gathering, plenty of pro-Myung faction figures are already being nominated as candidates for the chairman of the Nationwide Meeting standing committee.

Hardliners reminiscent of three-term lawmaker Park Joo-min and elected officers Lee Un-ju and Jeon Hyun-hee are talked about as candidates for the chairman of the Legislative and Judiciary Committee, which is the final step earlier than submission to the plenary session. Candidates for the Science, Know-how, Data, Broadcasting and Communications Committee, which is a standing committee answerable for the three broadcasting legal guidelines (Broadcasting Act, Broadcasting Tradition Promotion Affiliation Act, and amendments to the Korea Academic Broadcasting Company Act) and the Press Arbitration Act, embody three-term lawmaker Cho Seung-rae and elected president-elect Kim Hyun and Choi Min-hee. Kim Hyun-elect Choi Min-hee is re-elected, however is more likely to obtain a seat based mostly on her feminine quota share.

The Political Affairs Committee, which has the Prime Minister’s Workplace and the Nationwide Human Rights Fee of Korea as audited organizations, was named after three-term lawmaker Kim Byeong-gi, Yoo Dong-soo, and Jeon Jae-soo. 4-term lawmaker Park Beom-gye and third-term lawmaker Kim Seong-hwan and Lee Jae-jeong are talked about as chairpersons of the Commerce, Trade, Vitality and Small and Medium Enterprise Enterprise Committee, the place points associated to the nuclear energy plant and power business are quite a few. Reps. Park Joo-min and Kim Seong-hwan, who’re of their 50s, are among the many three candidates who’ve been pushed to the underside of the listing because of their age, however they’ve made sturdy statements on pending committee points. A Democratic Occasion official defined, “Primarily based on experience, we can not rule out the chance.”

● Selling laws led by Chairman Kang Seong of the Legislative Affairs, Operations, Division, Public Administration, and so on.

The Democratic Occasion is beginning to push via controversial payments by pledging that it’ll defend the Legislative and Judiciary Committee Chairman and the Steering Committee Chairman in any respect prices. Specifically, we plan to get it again this time, contemplating that numerous laws was blocked by shedding the chairman of the Legislative and Judiciary Committee to the ruling social gathering within the late twenty first Nationwide Meeting. So as to deal with the particular prosecution legislation associated to the ‘Lee Chae-Yang Myeong-ju’ (Itaewon Catastrophe Particular Act, Corporal Chae Particular Prosecutor Act, Seoul-Yangpyeong Expressway Particular Prosecutor Act, suspicion of receiving luxurious luggage from Mrs. Kim Kun-hee, suspicion of first woman Kim Kun-hee’s inventory value manipulation) that the Democratic Occasion introduced to suggest, the Chairman of the Legislative Committee can also be 1. The rating objective is Because the steering committee has the President’s Workplace because the audited company, the opposition social gathering is making ready to take the lead and take full purpose on the authorities’s mismanagement.

Reporter Myungjin Yoon mjlight@donga.com
Reporter Yoo Chae-yeon ycy@donga.com