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National Assembly Speaker Woo Won-shik met Chinese President Xi Jinping in Harbin, discussing diplomatic and economic issues. This is Xi's first meeting with a Korean National Assembly speaker in 11 years.
If the DP leader and his allies ignore such reality, they will see another shocking result in its national convention three months later.
Surprisingly, lawmaker-elect Choo Mi-ae has been defeated by Rep. Woo Won-shik in the majority party’s internal race to elect a candidate for the speaker of the next legislature despite DP leader Lee Jae-myung's “full support."
Members of the liberal Democratic Party (DP) on Thursday elected five-term lawmaker Woo Won-shik as their preferred candidate for speaker of the new National Assembly, which will convene later this month.
Discussions on an amendment demands a farsighted approach. Otherwise, it cannot draw a national consensus.
Before the Democratic Party (DP) elects its candidate for the new speaker of the National Assembly on Thursday, lawmaker-elect Choo Mi-ae bragged about receiving “full support from current DP leader Lee Jae-myung.”
The DP cannot avoid criticism for returning to the authoritarian days, when the party head appointed the floor leader.
South Korean and U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday celebrated the launch of a Washington-based platform dedicated to promoting cooperation between their legislatures as part of efforts to support the two countries' growing partnerships.
Rep. Kim Young-joo — deputy speaker of the National Assembly and a member of the majority Democratic Party (DP) — is expected to declare her migration to the governing People Power Party (PPP) on Monday.
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