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Democratic Party single-handedly passed an amendment to the law to extend the safe fare system by three years at the general meeting of the Land, Infrastructure and Transport Committee.

However, the ruling party is in a position to review it again from the beginning, so it is unclear whether the amendment will be handled smoothly until the plenary session.



This is reporter Lee Seong-hoon.



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One day after announcing that they would accept the ruling party's proposal to extend the safe fare system for three years, the Democratic Party held a plenary meeting with the Land, Infrastructure and Transport Committee's Legislative Subcommittee and voted on the bill.



[Kim Min-ki/Chief of the National Assembly's Land, Infrastructure and Transport Committee: I declare that it has been passed without objection.]



The power of the people who opposed the bill was absent.



The three-year extension of the safe fare system was proposed by the government's ruling party to the cargo union, which decided on a general strike last month, but the government's position was that it was withdrawn due to a second strike.



While the Democratic Party demanded a major concession from the ruling party as the cargo union took the strike,



[Choi In-ho/Democratic Party member: Didn't you promise to continue the safe fare system with a 3-year extension in mind?

It is entirely the fault of the government and the ruling party if they do not cooperate with the process of handling the National Assembly.] The



ruling party said that 3.5 trillion won in damages occurred due to the refusal of collective transportation for more than 15 days, and said that it could not extend the deadline as if nothing had happened.



[Park Jeong-ha/Rep. People's Power: It has been confirmed that the herd law does not work anymore.

The sunset extension is a plan that was kicked out by itself, which disappeared the moment the cargo union went on strike.]



The President's office, which led the hardline response, announced that it would watch the National Assembly discussion process.



[Kim Eun-hye/President's Office Public Relations Chief: It caused astronomical damage to our economy and people's livelihood.

It should be used as an opportunity to seek institutional improvement in the cargo industry.]



Although the sunset extension bill passed the National Territory Committee, it can be presented to the plenary session only after crossing the threshold of the Judiciary Committee chaired by the ruling party.



Considering the cabinet meeting and promulgation procedures, the situation requires that the National Assembly procedures be completed by the 24th of this month.



It seems that the struggle between the ruling and opposition parties over the extension of the sunset ceremony will continue for the time being.



(Video coverage: Jo Chun-dong · Kim Nam-seong, video editing: Park Jeong-sam)



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