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Democratic Party and the government hold a high-ranking party meeting today (12th) to discuss measures for flood damage. Whether or not to organize a fourth additional budget is also decided as early as today.

Reporter Jeong-Hyun Jung reports.

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Today's high-ranking party meeting is attended by Democratic Party Representative Lee Hae-chan, House Representative Kim Tae-nyeon, Prime Minister Jeong Sye-gyun, and Deputy Prime Minister Hong Nam-ki.

Based on the provisional amount of heavy rain damage nationwide, it seems that the most important discussion will be how much damage subsidies are needed.

Currently, about 2.6 trillion won in reserves remain in the central government, but voices from the Democratic Party are calling for the need to organize a fourth supplementary bill.

Kim Tae-nyeon, head of the hospital, said, "I have doubts about whether it will be used as a reserve in order to create recovery and preventive measures," he said. "After receiving the damage report, I will actively review it."

[Kim Tae-nyeon/Debuter, Democratic Party Representative: We will make efforts to recover the various damages mentioned earlier and to devise measures for improvement by rapidly discussing with the government.]

The 1st opposition Party, the Unified Party, is also in favor of the 4th supplementary administration.

However, Deputy Prime Minister Hong Nam-ki is still known as a cautious stance, and the Blue House also revealed a principled stance to watch the ruling party discussions on the formation of the 4th supplementary administration, drawing attention to the final conclusion.

In addition, today's meeting will discuss ways to raise the disaster support fund for some items that have remained the same for the 15th year.

There is a high possibility that additional special disaster areas will be designated.

Currently, seven areas in Gangwon, Gyeonggi, and Chungcheong have been declared special disaster areas, but some areas of Honam and Gyeongnam, which have suffered severe damage, have to be added.