Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism's suspension of duty...Lee Ki-heung is running for a third term, and he's walking.

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Whether Lee Ki-heung, chairman of the Korea Sports Council, can challenge for the third term will be decided by the Sports Fair Committee tomorrow (12th).

On the eve of the meeting, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism issued a suspension of Chairman Lee's duties, which is expected to negatively affect the review.

This is reporter Cho Eun-ji.

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The National Assembly's Culture, Sports and Tourism Committee has also become the chairman of the Korean Sports Council, Lee Ki-heung.

This is because I went on a business trip to Switzerland ahead of the pending question.

[Kim Seung-soo / National Assembly Culture, Sports and Tourism Committee member (Power of the People): (Korea) attended the event for the first time last year, and it is also an event attended by a proxy-level employee of the sports association. Obviously, it's such a business trip to avoid attending the National Assembly.]

Chairman Lee Ki-heung was also absent during last month's parliamentary audit due to schedule, and the Office for Government Policy Coordination's public service inspection team pointed out that Chairman Lee had eaten with employees near Jincheon Training Center for more than four hours that day.

In addition, he requested an investigation by detecting serious charges such as hiring employees illegally, receiving money and valuables, embezzlement, and breach of trust.

[SEO YOUNG SEOK / Office of Government Policy Coordination Official Service Officer: We delivered the resume of a certain person who is close to the child to a senior athlete's village official, and /// The specific person designated by the chairman of the sports board was finally hired after beating the 32:1 competition rate]

The day after the announcement, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism suspended Lee Ki-heung from his post in accordance with the Act on the Operation of Public Institutions.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism explained that they cannot see any sports association-related work immediately, and that all rights, from the use of public funds to budget allocation and approval for professional athletes, will be deprived.

Under such pressure from the National Assembly and the government, whether Chairman Lee Ki-heung will be able to run in the next election in January next year will be decided by the Sports Fair Committee tomorrow.

According to the association's articles of association, the challenge can be made only after passing the deliberation from the third consecutive term, but since Chairman Lee is an incumbent IOC member, it is evaluated that the basic requirements have been met.

However, qualitative evaluation, which accounts for 60%, is a variable.

Morality and leadership have been undermined through various government audits, and public opinion is cold, and it is expected that there will be a debate over whether to give Chairman Lee the right to run.

Government officials said in a YTN call that Chairman Lee "self-appointed" fair members, but said it would be difficult to serve three consecutive terms if properly judged,

I look forward to a common sense conclusion, he said.

On the day of the meeting, the sports association's labor union announced a protest calling for "fair screening, opposition to Lee Ki-heung's third consecutive term."

However, the council of the heads of 17 provincial and provincial sports associations actively defended Chairman Lee, saying that the union's actions were a clear intervention in the election.

Although the announcement of his candidacy continues one after another, Chairman Lee Ki-heung, who has been gaining votes for more than eight years with his current premium, is still considered a strong first-tier player.

This is why the FTC is considered a key variable in the sports presidential election tomorrow.

I'm Jo Eun Ji of YTN.