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The rival parties have failed to narrow their differences over the ruling Democratic Party(DP)’s legislative move to strip the prosecution of its investigative powers as a part of prosecution reform.
The National Assembly Legislation and Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee handling legislation reviews continued their discussions on related bills on Tuesday but had to suspend the session at around 9:40 p.m. due to verbal escalations between lawmakers.
Representative Yoo Sang-bum, who spearheads main opposition People Power Party(PPP) lawmakers at the committee, claimed the session had to be stopped due to DP Representative Choe Kang-wook’s criticism against PPP lawmaker Jun Joo-hyae.
Choe argued that he was taking issue with Jun repeating same arguments over 20 minutes, suspecting it is a strategy to delay parliamentary deliberations on the bills.
The DP lawmaker also reportedly exchanged salvos with National Court Administration chief Kim Hyeong-du, who expressed his concerns over the bills during the session saying they are likely to run counter to the Constitution.
The subcommittee, which kicked off deliberations on the bills on Monday, had resumed related discussions at around 2 p.m. on Tuesday.
The DP and PPP earlier agreed to hold a third day session at Wednesday afternoon but it remains unclear whether it will resume as scheduled.
Rival Parties Yet to Iron out Differences over Bills on Investigative Power Reform
Source: Matira Matibay
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