'Working National Assembly Act' to cut taxes if you don't have a meeting. The result of the survey by 300 members of the SBS Issue Reporting Team was passed. But the atmosphere is cheap. No progress in discussion. There is a lot of talk about making a working parliament, but there is not much discussion about'no-work wages'. Reporters from the issue-covering team who had ``continuous coverage of the National Assembly Act at the beginning of last month'' reunited. The opposite logic, the fact-checking, and the parliamentary law of work, starts again.
Working National Assembly Act'Another' Continuous Report
① Part:'If you don't have a meeting, you'll cut taxes' SBS survey, a majority in favor of "
② hand: I had four days meeting in the 20th National Assembly, a month
③ part: 'bulchulseok large seve cuts' Come to apply 20 parliamentary
④ side: there 231 years history, you also should be French parliament' yaljjal '
⑤:'National Assembly', a recurring history 60 years ago?
'Because it is a law-making thing, we have to be careful', but in fact, our parliament was very careful about the poisonous'working parliament'. For 60 years. 'The National Assembly member should also work harder with the attitude of a living person.' The so-called'working parliament' demands go back to the time when the Constitutional Assembly, that is, the first National Assembly in Korea's history, was created. There is an article on the front page of Dong-A Ilbo on March 24, 1950. The title is'Decrease in Attendance Rate'.

At the time, when President Syngman Rhee announced that the next general election was scheduled to take place within two months, he covered the news that members of the electoral campaign, who were busy attending the meeting, were only going to the region. Some lawmakers point out that "even if you fail, you shouldn't break the responsibilities and responsibilities of lawmakers."
The same was true of the 5th National Assembly in August 1960, 10 years later. A passage from the Dong-A Ilbo front page editorial. Beat the bones. "There were no such neglectful and inefficient people. The attendance rate was bad, and it was common to resign without notice or without reason, and the meeting was held for an hour or two."

The reason for the repetition of the'unworking National Assembly' has

not changed since democratization. Due to the fact that the original composition was not achieved, there were days after which the budget review and legislative discussion were empty. According to Article 5, paragraph 3 of the National Assembly Law, the first interim meeting must be held within 7 days of the start of the term.

So, the deadline for negotiating the formation of a circle is already stuck in the week. Within this period, the presidency of the National Assembly must be elected, and each permanent chairman must be elected within three days of the first meeting. However, according to a recent report by the Legislative Investigation Service, the average period from the 13th to the 20th National Assembly was 41.4 days. It has been violating the law for over 20 years.

Returning taxes and

faithfully functioning as a'political show' workshop legislative body, and participating in meetings prescribed by law for this purpose. It's the basic of the basics, but why do things stand out in this area? Rather than attending the plenary and standing meetings, are you busy with taking care of the local community? Or because of a side event?

In Korean political history last year, the opening of the National Assembly has been used as a'card' to achieve the political objectives of the minority or opposition party, which itself has not been in power. It was becoming a familiar practice for the ruling minority or opposition party to dismiss the original composition, that is, to use'congression' as a negotiating card.

When the 18th National Assembly launched in 2008, 33 ruling Grand National Party members of the Grand National Party gathered an average of 720 million won per capita to support the underprivileged children. Although the principle of'no-paid wages' was the principle, the UN opposition party and the UN Democratic Party, which had been engaged in an over-the-counter struggle at the time, criticized it as a "show of return to the insane tax" to pressure opposition parties.

Even when the 19th National Assembly launched four years later, when the 2012 National Assembly opened on the 27th after the statutory opening date, the Saenuri Party decided to return the full amount of taxes through the general assembly of the Assembly and revoked 1.36 billion won for the military excavation. There was thing to donate to.

In 2016, when the opening of the National Assembly was two days behind the statutory deadline, the National Assembly returned 38 taxes for two days to the National Assembly. At that time, the Saenuri Party called it'populism' and the Democratic Party stated that it was'to attract.'

It wasn't because they couldn't work, so returning the tax and paying for it would lay down the prerogatives of the National Assembly, or the workshop of sleazy political tactics to pressure the opposition party, and even sometimes, the position of political forces changed, but it wasn't going to be legally nailed. Efforts have never been achieved.

'The National Assembly Act', the defendant lost and defended, of

course, sometimes the voice of magnetism came out. In 2005, in the 17th National Assembly, in March, 20 members, including Jae-wan Park, did not participate in the “To Realize a Working Congress” conference, and proposed a revised bill that does not charge a conference fee. It means that if the member does not attend the meeting for more than half of the total number of meeting days, the full cost of the extracurricular activities will not be paid. The bill was scrapped at the end of the term.


After that, many amendments were proposed and disappeared under the name'Working National Assembly'. This is the subject of the amendment. It is to prevent the revolution of the National Assembly due to the opposition between the opposition parties. It was especially initiated several times during the 18th National Assembly, which opened in 82 days due to the American beef surge. The contents are large. It means that you should not pay taxes or special allowances to members who are not present.

Although some of the revisions, such as the regular holding of the standing committee (initiation of the 2016 amendment), were passed, legislation that directly linked attendance at meetings to councilors' allowances was always discarded at the time of receipt by the subcommittee.

One lawmaker explained that "the legislative law that I was working on was often pushed back in the ranking of legislation to be dealt with after the push and pull process is over."

'Working National Assembly Act'… this time?

Several legislative amendments related to the'Working Parliament' have been proposed in the 20th National Assembly, which has not expired. The revisions to the National Assembly Act proposed by Representatives Chairman Moon Hee-sang and Chairman Park Joo-min and Democratic Party of March each include contents that give actual disadvantages, such as establishing a regular parliamentary system to hold a temporary parliament every month and not paying allowances to members who are absent from the meeting. There is.

Some lawmakers have proposed legislation to quickly address the'working law of parliament' as the final task before a new parliamentary silhouette is drawn in the general election. In addition, Democratic Party Lee Seok-hyun (6th line), Won Hye-young (5th line), Future United Party Kim Moo-sung (6th line), Gap Yoon Jung (5th line), Jeong Byeong-guk (5th line), Future Korean Party Won Yoo-cheol (5th line), Citizen Party Lee Jong-geol (5th line) ) On March 30, lawmakers who have failed to run for general elections, including lawmakers, issued an amendment to the National Assembly Act that required regular holdings of the National Assembly and obligation to handle the bill.

The provisional provisions are based on the principle of holding a temporary parliament every month, making it mandatory for the plenary session to handle the bill, and choosing a chairman of the parliament, and disagreeing on the basis of the number of seats of bargaining groups if the position of the permanent chairperson is not agreed within the set deadline.

Representative Jeong Byeong-guk, who initiated the bill, said, "If you say that you should do it together (enact the National Assembly Act) before the general election, the position will change when the results come out." "I thought I had to pass this law unconditionally before."

In addition, he added, "You should exercise political power as much as the seats the people gave you, and then you should be evaluated by elections.

The legislative law that worked eventually did not pass within the 20th term. And the 21st National Assembly opened in earnest, and after the labor, the plenary session was held on Friday (5th). Can the 21st National Assembly break the history of the'National Assembly' that has been going on for 60 years? Our reporters will keep watching.