"There's no behind-the-scenes negotiations today".an intensifying budget confrontation

[Anchor]
The legal deadline for next year's budget bill has passed, but the confrontation between the ruling and opposition parties continues.

The political situation is freezing at the end of the year due to the impeachment of the head of the assessment agency and the vote on the Special Prosecutor's Act on Kim.

I'm connecting with the reporter. Reporter Na Hye-in!

Is there no budget negotiation at all?

[Reporter]
Yesterday, National Assembly Speaker Woo Won-sik put the budget proposal on hold and ordered the ruling and opposition parties to negotiate further, but nothing has progressed.

Officials from the ruling and opposition parties who spoke to our reporters in the morning said they had no plans to meet with the floor leaders yet.

At the morning meeting, floor leader Choo Kyung-ho of the People's Power Party stuck to the position that there was no additional negotiation without apology and withdrawal of the reduction plan unilaterally handled by the Democratic Party of Korea's Special Committee on Budget and Accounts.

After dealing with the cut plan, Lee Jae-myung said he emphasized the need for a local currency budget while discussing the expansionary budget, and slammed it as a politics of hypocrisy.

In a call with YTN, a key ruling party official said many members of the party told the floor leader to never be pushed back in this budget fight, as it is okay to give up the local budget.

Some lawmakers were also cynical that the government should cut all the budgets claimed by the Democratic Party when drawing up the budget for the next year, or that the opposition party would eventually axe its feet.

The Democratic Party cannot retreat from the principle of cutting the budget, which is not explained by the Democratic Party.

Floor leader Park Chan-dae said in a morning meeting that the Democratic Party's budget cut was only 0.6% of the total government budget expenditure, and that cutting government reserves and special activity costs for investigative agencies would not paralyze the state administration.

The government's proposal was not aimed at the purpose of people's livelihood, but at tax cuts for the rich and maintaining privileges, he said, urging the government to return the government if people's livelihoods collapse and public security becomes unstable.

Inside the Democratic Party, there is an atmosphere that the National Assembly speaker threatened to cut the budget further by the 10th, which was suggested as the deadline for negotiations, but left open the room for negotiations on an increase in the budget for people's livelihoods.

[Anchor]
Tomorrow, the president of the Board of Audit and Inspection and the head of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office will be voted on, right?

[Reporter]
Although the power of the people is strongly opposed, there is no real way to stop it.

Under the National Assembly Act, the impeachment bill reported to the plenary session will be discarded if it is not voted on within 72 hours, so it is expected to be presented to the plenary session tomorrow.

The ruling party said the impeachment was a shameful political retaliation for auditing the former regime and investigating the opposition leader, signaling a large-scale condemnation meeting tomorrow.

On the other hand, the Democratic Party said it would not sit idly by the prosecution's attitude of collectively protesting against the legitimate authority of the National Assembly, and is currently deliberating on the bill calling for an audit of them by the Legislative and Judiciary Committee.

[Anchor]
The Democratic Party released a recording of Myung Tae Gyun today?

[Reporter]
Yes, the key is the suspicion of nomination deals, which Myung claims that the candidate for the head of the local government, who was preparing to run in the local elections in 2018, handed over a large amount to Rep. Choo Kyung-ho, the current floor leader of the People's Power, to win the nomination.

The candidate was nominated at the time but failed, and the Democratic Party insisted that those involved should be investigated to see if the recording was true.

In response, floor leader Choo Kyung-ho told reporters a little while ago that it was absurd and fake news, and refuted that he explained all of his wealth details during the hearing of the deputy prime minister for economic affairs in the past.

He warned that he would strongly respond to the allegations if he reported them without confirmation or reproduced them.

Inside the Democratic Party of Korea, along with the impeachment of the budget and the head of the inspection agency, there is also a plan to postpone the re-decision of the Special Prosecutor's Act for Kim Gun-hee scheduled for the 10th.

The people's power is confident of a single response whenever they vote, but some close Dong-hoon circles maintain an ambiguous attitude that they need to keep an eye on the investigation targeting Myung Tae-kyun.

I'm Na Hye-in from YTN in the National Assembly.