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Democratic Party leader Jae-myung Lee gave his first speech at the National Assembly.

Regarding the controversy over President Yoon Seok-yeol's visit to diplomacy, he criticized that he would clearly hold the blame for the diplomatic disaster.



Reporter Yoo Soo-hwan covered the story.



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Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung gave his first speech at the National Assembly negotiating group for 40 minutes.



President Lee defined the president's visit to the United States as a 'diplomatic disaster', saying that the president's tour diplomacy is "a harsh real battle that cannot be understood by a novice."



[Lee Jae-myung / Democratic Party Representative: The president's tour of the United States and Britain showed the level of diplomacy of this government.

As the first party, I will clearly ask you to take responsibility for this diplomatic disaster.]



At the same time, he said that it was 'diplomatic condolences without condolences' and 'humiliating Korea-Japan summit,' and did not bring up core tasks such as discussing the 'US inflation reduction bill' or 'Korea-US currency swap'. criticized for not doing so.



Regarding the ruling party, which defined President Yoon's vulgarity controversy as a 'subtitle manipulation case' during his tour, he said, "I warn you that any attempt to put the blame for the diplomatic disaster on the people, the media and the opposition will never succeed."



President Lee also raised the topic of constitutional amendment and proposed the formation of a special committee at the pan-National Assembly level.



[Lee Jae-myung / Democratic Party Representative: We need to change the 5-year single-term system to a 4-year double term system to enable responsible politics and increase the continuity of state affairs.]



In detail, the introduction of runoff voting, the Prime Minister's National Assembly recommendation system, and the transfer of the Board of Audit and Inspection to the National Assembly were presented.



During President Lee's speech, Democratic lawmakers poured applause, and People's Power lawmakers booed.



Tomorrow, the People's Power Emergency Response Committee Chairman Jeong Jin-seok is scheduled to deliver a speech by the representative of the negotiating group.