the results of this audit "d-"...a chairman who was more talkative than the committee members

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The first parliamentary audit of the 22nd National Assembly, which is nearing its end, received the worst report card from civic groups.


There was a lot of shouting and rude talk, and it was also pointed out that the chairman of the committee who was in charge of the event spoke three times more than the audit committee members.

Reporter Hong Min-ki reports.

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On the 7th, the chairman of the National Assembly's Science, Technology, Information, Broadcasting, and Communication Committee.

Questions from Chairman Choi Min-hee of the Democratic Party will follow.

[Choi Min-hee / Chairman of the National Assembly's Science, Technology, Information, Broadcasting and Communications Committee, Democratic Party of Korea: Just answer. Is it appropriate? Isn't that appropriate? (No, that's why I'm going to give you an answer now.) Yes, you can. Don't say that and answer. Don't be too sweet]

In the relevant parliamentary inspection, both Chairman Choi's remarks and questioning time amounted to 2 hours and 7 seconds.

It was more than five times longer than the average question time of the ruling and opposition audit committee members, and accounted for about 20% of the total speech time.

On the 18th, at the parliamentary audit of the Legislation and Judiciary Committee, a war of words continued for a while between Chairman Chung Chung-rae and Representative Song Seok-joon of the People's Power.

[Song Seok-jun / Member of the People's Power (last 18th): In particular, our chairman of the Judiciary Committee, whom I want to respect, please refrain from abusing his power on the spot.]

[Jeong Chung-rae / Chairman of the National Assembly Legislation and Judiciary Committee: What do you mean overuse of power to the chairman?]

Chairman Chung also accounted for 22% of all lawmakers' remarks alone.

Bold words and profanity were also poured out regardless of ruling and opposition lawmakers, witnesses, and reference witnesses.

[Park Gyun-taek / Democratic Party member: We need someone to be killed together, so we brought innocent juniors and made a red team.]

[KIM YONG HYUN / Minister of National Defense: I think it's "XX" to stay still without saying that you're wearing a military uniform]

remarks reminiscent of criminal investigations, not state audits,
It was repeated that one side left due to the collision between
.

[Park Jung-hoon / National People's Power (last 15th): Does it make sense to ask me to apologize without apologizing?]

The National Audit NGO Monitoring Team, which has evaluated the audit activities for 26 years, gave a "D-" grade in the first parliamentary audit evaluation of the 22nd National Assembly.

In particular, he pointed out that it was a disappointing parliamentary inspection that was far from effective, with all standing committees focusing on the issues of Democratic Party Chairman Lee Jae-myung and First Lady Kim Gun-hee.

There was still a parliamentary inspection of 'Pyeongpung Establishment' that called out and didn't ask questions.

Although the largest number of audited institutions ever were adopted, more than 200 institutions, more than 30% of all audited institutions, did not receive a single question from the National Assembly.

The results of the National Assembly's audit are barely avoiding 'failure' with C or D grades from the 21st National Assembly.

There are many voices that the National Assembly should change now in line with the original purpose of the parliamentary audit to monitor state agencies on behalf of the people.

I'm YTN's Hong Min Gi.


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