A total of 1,108,471 petitions were uploaded to the Blue House public petition bulletin board, which has been in operation since the beginning of President Moon Jae-in's tenure, with the intention of communicating directly with the people.
Of these, a total of 284 petitions were answered by the government and Blue House officials with more than 200,000 signatures within 30 days from the date the petition was posted.
The Blue House today released 'the results of the 5-year operation of the Moon Jae-in government's national petition' containing these details.
A total of 516 million people visited the bulletin board of the national petition, which started on August 19, 2017, by February of this year.
The number of daily visitors averaged 3118 million, with an average of 670 petitions posted per day.
Among the petitions that received more than 200,000 signatures and met the requirements for an answer, 127 petitions from victims of crimes or accidents accounted for the largest proportion.
It was followed by petitions related to government policies and systems (71 cases), political petitions (46 cases), and broadcasting and media-related petitions (16 cases).
The Blue House evaluated, "The voice of the people through the people's petition has become the driving force for reforming laws and improving the system."
At the same time, the petition related to 'Telegram Room N' led to the establishment of a pan-government joint digital sex crime eradication measure and revision of the Sexual Violence Punishment Act. said to have led.
As a result of a survey conducted by the Blue House on men and women over the age of 18 across the country three times this month, in June 2020 and August 2021, 56.8% of respondents answered that 'an ordinary citizen has a great ability to express his anger or complain of resentment'. introduced that it was.
The Blue House said, "The Moon Jae-in government's national petition will run until the last day of his term on May 9." "I will do my best until the end."