Assembly Speaker to Put Marine Death Special Probe Bill to Tuesday’s Plenary Vote

National Assembly Speaker Woo Won-shik has decided to put to a plenary vote Tuesday afternoon an opposition-pushed bill on a special counsel investigation into a military report on the death of a Marine last year.

According to ruling People Power Party(PPP) floor leader Choo Kyung-ho, who met with the speaker and his main opposition Democratic Party(DP) counterpart Park Chan-dae, he had strongly protested Woo’s intent to put the contentious bill to a vote during an interpellation session.

Choo said the PPP plans to launch a filibuster on the special probe bill in protest of such parliamentary procedures.

While the rival parties have yet to agree on the plenary agenda, Park said the DP had requested the speaker to place the bill to a vote ahead of the one-year anniversary of the Marine’s death on July 19.

Meanwhile, DP-led impeachment motions against senior prosecutors that led corruption probes against former DP leader Lee Jae-myung, and former Korea Communications Commission(KCC) chair Kim Hong-il, who resigned amid suspicion of constitutional and legal violations, will be reported on Tuesday.