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seems that the fate of the Minister of Health and Welfare Minister Jeong Ho-young will be decided tomorrow (24th) as soon as possible.

The president said he needed more time, but voices calling for him to step down on his own are continuing, not only from the Democratic Party, but also from within the passport. 



Reporter Eom Min-jae reported.



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Democratic Party pressured the passport to arrange the status of welfare minister candidate Jeong Ho-young, saying that the people had already lost the horse. 



[Park Hong-geun / Democratic Party floor leader (MBC radio): I think the national bill is being recorded as foreign currency one after another.

Won't that bill be blown away someday?]



President Yoon Seok-yeol answered a question about candidate Jeong's path on the way to work, but



[Yun Seok-yeol/President: Well, it seems that we need a little more time.]



In the power of the people, the floor leader In a public statement, he virtually demanded his resignation.



[Kwon Seong-dong/People’s Power Floor Leader: I will say that it would be difficult to appoint Jeong Ho-young as the minister, and there were many opposing opinions about it.]



A People’s Power official said, “In relation to the issue of where candidate Jeong is going,

There is no disagreement in the party," he said, and a presidential office official said, "I am persuading candidate Chung through my acquaintances."



An official from the Ministry of Health and Welfare also said that he and Chung have not shared work since the hearing and are waiting for the decision of the candidate and the presidential office.



People's Power officials also said that they are currently out of contact with Candidate Chung, and it is known that Candidate Chung is still in a tough position that there is no reason to resign.



Even though 'a long-standing relationship with the president' was mentioned, both the opposition and the ruling party have turned their backs on it, so it is predicted that the position of candidate Chung will be sorted out before the first regular cabinet meeting of the Yoon Seok-yeol government scheduled for the day after tomorrow.



(Video coverage: Kim Hong-ki, Yang Doo-won, video editing: Choi Jin-hwa)