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Yesterday (10th), after the revised bill was passed, the National Assembly started an unlimited filibuster discussion on the NIS Act.
Both the ruling and opposition parties started debating, but contrary to the original expectations, the Democratic Party did not end the debate, and it continues today.
Reporter Baekwoon on the report.
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opposition party's filibuster about the amendment to the National Intelligence Service Act, which began yesterday afternoon, continues.
The main purpose of the amendment to the law is to hand over the authority of the anti-aircraft investigation to the police and abolish the NIS' function of collecting domestic information.
The power of the people insisted that the power of the police would become too large and would only be helpful to North Korea.
[Chul-gyu Lee/People's Power: Who would benefit from the NIS' not conducting an investigation to capture spies?
Doing these things that only help the North Korean regime...
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Democratic Party was confronted with the need to amend the law for the institutional completion of the NIS reform.
[Kim Byung-ki/Democratic Party Member: I am convinced that national security is not conservative or progressive, but only national interests and the well-being of the people.]
After 24 hours after the start of the filibuster, if more than 180 members, three-fifths of all lawmakers approve Is terminated.
There were a lot of prospects that the Democratic Party would end the filibuster right away, with more than 180 members including the Democratic Party and the Open Democratic Party.
Since the amendment to the Airlift Act was passed, it was analyzed that it was aimed at a situation where the opposition party was exhausted by controlling the pace and was considerate of the opposition party.
In addition, it seems that the judgment that the anonymous voting was burdensome in the situation where the number of seats on the passport was slightly over 180.