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Today (9th) is the last day of the regular session of the National Assembly this year.

What is urgent right now is the handling of next year's budget bill, but the ruling and opposition parties have not been able to narrow the difference of opinion on key issues, so last-minute negotiations continue until today.

The Democratic Party plans to push for a vote on the proposal to dismiss Minister of Public Administration and Security Lee Sang-min at today's plenary session.



This is Reporter Som-wook Sohn.



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[Jeong Myeong-ho/Chief of the National Assembly: A proposal to dismiss Minister Lee Sang-min of the State Council and the Ministry of Public Administration and Security has been proposed.] If the proposal to dismiss Minister Lee Sang



-min reported to the National Assembly is not voted on within 72 hours after 24 hours, it will be automatically discarded.



The Democratic Party plans to push for a vote at the plenary session today, the last day of the regular National Assembly.



The 169-seat Democratic Party can handle it alone, as long as it passes a majority of the registered lawmakers.



However, even if the proposal is passed, it is unlikely that President Yoon Seok-yeol will accept it.



After reporting the proposal, Minister Lee Sang-min, who visited the National Assembly to see the vote on the bill under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Public Administration and Security, kept his seat with a calm expression and left.



Negotiations on the next year's budget have not been able to find a breakthrough until the last minute as they have not been able to narrow the difference of views on key issues.



It is necessary to decide where and how much to reduce to determine the budget to increase, but the difference between the ruling and opposition parties is large from the size of the reduction.



Some issues, such as corporate tax cuts, local currency budgets, and the relocation of the presidential office, are still unable to reduce the difference of opinion.



[Park Hong-geun/Democratic Party Representative: I would like to say that the Democratic Party government approaches the budget of the Yoon Seok-yeol government, but why is it touching it? ]



[Ho-Young Joo/President of People's Power: I've talked about the difference of opinion several times, but it's not narrowed down.

Now, finally, it depends on whether or not you can conclude a collective agreement, not one by one, but 4 or 5 collective agreements...

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Unless a dramatic agreement is reached in last-minute behind-the-scenes negotiations, it will be virtually impossible to process the budget within the regular session of the National Assembly.