I mean the ongoing budget screening at
the National Assembly the floor leaders
of Korea's three negotiating bodies
clashed once again this time over
president moon Jane's replacement of his
finance minister and chief policy
advisor Kim bo-gyung has the latest from
Parliament the main talking point at the
regular meeting on Monday was president
Monday s decision to replace his Finance
Minister and his chief policy advisor
last week kim jeongtae the floor leader
of the main opposition liberté Korea
party criticized the government for
making an abrupt changed at an important
period when the Parliament is reviewing
next year's budget
he said that replacing the to economic
Chiefs is an evasion of a responsibility
for the budget proposal in response to
this ruling party floor leader Hong
myung-bo claimed that the replacement
came at the request of the opposition
parties adding that former Finance
Minister Kim dong-hyun will faithfully
participate in the budget screening
until his successor Honam G gets
confirmed the floor leaders also touched
upon the need for the revision of the
parliaments confirmation hearing system
the ruling party called for a systemic
reform saying the questioning under the
current system is too harsh on the
candidates whereas the opposition want
to see the system changed so that
nominees require parliamentary approval
in order to be appointed currently the
president can appoint a nominee even if
the National Assembly fails to approve a
candidate during a confirmation hearing
national assembly speaker moon hee-sang
said that rival parties must put
themselves in each other's shoes
to come up with wise improvements to the
current parliamentary confirmation
system meanwhile the four leaders agreed
to expedite the passage of the unitl Act
a bill aimed at toughening the
punishment for drunk driving
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