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Minju pushed ahead with 'single reduction plan'...The ruling party said, "Even the budget is under Lee Jae-myung."

2024.11.29 PM 09:42
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[Anchor]
Under the leadership of the Democratic Party of Korea, next year's budget bill, which only reflects the opposition's "reduced opinion," has been passed by the National Assembly's Special Committee on Budget and Accounts.

It included a full cut of special activity expenses for investigative agencies, and the ruling party protested that it was unprecedented and that it showed that even the budget was under representative Lee Jae-myung.

Reporter Kim Da-yeon reports.

[Reporter]
Next year's budget bill, which had been struggling with negotiations even one day before the legal deadline, passed the National Assembly's Special Committee on Budget and Accounts alone by the opposition party.

Unlike the increase in the budget, the reduction does not require government consent, so the "reduction plan" that reflects only the Democratic Party's opinion was enforced.Do you have

"? I declare that it has been passed."

It cut the prosecution's special activity expenses of 8 billion won, saying it was unclear where it was used, and cut half of the reserve funds, as well as the gas field project and Yongsan Park-related budget.

In other words, the Democratic Party gave up the 2 trillion won "local currency" budget increase, which is a key policy of the Democratic Party, and the Democratic Party said it was rewarding to have gone on a difficult path that no one else would go to.

[Rep. Heo Young / Minjoo Party of Korea: It is very meaningful that we have created room to cut unnecessary budgets and capture the people's livelihood budgets]

The People's Power strongly protested that the Democratic Party of Korea's pressure on the prosecution, the police, and the Board of Audit and Inspection by budget cuts is for Lee Jae-myung, who is under various investigations and trials.

A few days ago, the Democratic Party of Korea began to express its unilateral intention to pursue it, claiming that Lee's influence must have played a role in the rapid change in posture.

He has been shouting for people's livelihoods and asking the government to spend some money, but asked if it is for the people to disrupt criminal investigations such as drugs, gangsters, and fraud due to budget cuts.

[Rep. Koo Ja-geun / People's Power: Following Lee Jae-myung above the law, even the budget, the bastion of people's livelihoods, will remain a dark history that the Democratic Party of Korea proved itself under Lee Jae-myung.]

The government also expressed regret.

[Choi Sang-mok / Deputy Prime Minister for Economy and Minister for Strategy and Finance: I am very sorry and deeply sorry that the Democratic Party has handled it alone.]

In fact, the "opposition party's single plan" was approved by the Budget and Accounts Committee, but there is no room for an agreement between the ruling and opposition parties as it has not yet been processed by the plenary session.This is the background of the interpretation that it is a strong negotiation strategy to fulfill the Democratic Party's demands, such as

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Nevertheless, the ruling and opposition parties are sharply confronting each other over the budget bill, raising concerns that the unprecedented opposition party's single plan will go beyond the plenary session.

I'm Kim Dayeon of YTN.

Filmmaker: Lee Seong-mo and Han Sang-won
Video editing: Yeon Jin-young


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