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presidential staff came to the National Assembly today (23rd).

The opposition party launched an offensive by raising allegations of ministerial personnel issues, the so-called private recruitment controversy in the presidential office, and plagiarism of Kim Kun-hee's thesis.

In response, the ruling party countered that there were similar cases of such private recruitment in the last government and the Blue House.



Reporter Hwa Kang-yoon provides more details.



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Democratic Party opened the door by questioning the allegations of plagiarism of Kim Gun-hee's thesis.



[Kang Min-jung/Democratic Rep.: (Professor at Sookmyung Women's University) is accusing Mrs. Kim Gun-hee of plagiarizing her thesis as it is, in fact, 'copying' it.]



While Chief of Staff Kim Dae-gi spared no words, the people's power blocked it. I did.



[Song Eon-seok / People's Power Rep.: Is the thesis problem of Mrs. Kim Gun-hee really related to today's topic, settlement review, or business report?

.]



At the same time, he counterattacked by mentioning the case in which the daughter of former President Moon Jae-in's wife, Kim Jung-sook, was hired by the Blue House.



[Yang Geum-hee / People's Power Rep.: The violation is too strict to say that I do not know that there is no one responsible for even this illegal preferential hiring...

.]



The Democratic Party counterattacked over the private hiring controversy of President Yoon Seok-yeol and Kim Kun-hee, but Chief of Staff Kim explained that it was the same in the past.



[Kim Dae-gi / Chief of Staff of the President's Office: (Working in the President's Office) is the 5th time, and it has been like that in the past.

There is no case of publicly hiring the presidential office.]



When pointed out that the responsibility of the staff for the troubled state of affairs is not light,



[Rep. Park Young-soon / Democratic Party: The seniors behind, all of them who contributed to raising the problem rather than solving it.

All of you should have resigned together.]



The answer came that it was not a matter for you to decide for yourself.



[Kim Dae-gi / Chief of Staff of the President's Office: I don't think it's a place where I can decide on my own.]



The opposition and opposition also clashed over the 'Special Prosecution Act on suspicion of Mrs.



Jin Seong-joon, senior deputy floor leader of the Democratic Party, said, "The possibility of pushing forward with a special prosecution based on the party argument cannot be ruled out," while floor leader Kwon Seong-dong, the People's Power, criticized "the investigation of Rep. Lee Jae-myung and his wife Kim Hye-kyung."



(Video coverage: Cho Chun-dong, video editing: Yumira)