Overview
- The DP and PPP agreed to extend the National Assembly’s review of President Lee’s 20.2 trillion won supplementary budget to two days after PPP members exited the committee in protest.
- PPP lawmakers walked out of the special Budget and Accounts Committee over the DP’s unilateral scheduling that excluded opposition input.
- The ruling party, backed by its 167-seat majority, has formally requested a full Assembly vote on both the supplementary budget and the prime minister nomination by July 4.
- Opposition MPs are conducting a “people’s confirmation hearing” to demand testimony and documents addressing Kim Min-seok’s 2005 and 2010 convictions and unexplained asset discrepancies.
- President Lee has pressed for unity as the DP leverages its supermajority to appoint committee chairs and expedite its legislative agenda at the National Assembly.