Health and Welfare Committee meeting may not be held in APR

Due to the impeachment of the president, and the early presidential election that will be held

Duck-Soo Han must set the date of the early presidential election within 10 days of the impeachment date

The National Election Commission begins accepting applications for the 21st presidential election

The Constitutional Court sentenced former President Suk Yeol Yoon to dismissal at 11:22 a.m.

 

on the 4th, setting the stage for an early presidential election.

 

The election date must be announced by Acting President Duck-Soo Han within 10 days of the president's impeachment.

 

This means that the date of the early presidential election will be confirmed before the 14th of this month.

 

The National Election Commission announced that it would begin accepting registrations for the 21st presidential election on the 4th, immediately after the Constitutional Court decided to cite the impeachment motion.

 

The dismissal of the president has made it difficult for the National Assembly's standing committees to hold meetings.

 

The secretaries of the ruling and opposition parties of the NA’s Health and Welfare Committee are likely not to hold a standing committee meeting in April.

 

First, the National Election Commission announced the method of registering as a preliminary candidate, the campaigning method, and the taboo acts.

 

A person who wants to become a preliminary candidate must submit to the National Election Commission documents certifying eligibility, such as a family relationship certificate, a document certifying criminal record, and a certificate of formal education, and pay a deposit of KRW 60 million (20% of the KRW 300 million deposit required of candidates).

 

Assuming that all 60 days of the early presidential election period are used, the official candidate must register by the 10th to 11th of next month.

 

The winner of the early presidential election will immediately begin his or her term without going through the Presidential Transition Committee.

 

A prospective candidate may set up an ▲election office, ▲distribute campaign business cards, ▲create and send out promotional materials to no more than 10% of the total number of households in the country, ▲wear or carry a sash or sign, and ▲publish and sell (except through door-to-door sales) one copy of a prospective candidate's campaign pledge book in the usual way.

 

Even if they are not a candidate or an election official, those who are allowed to campaign can do so at any time by sending text messages, posting on websites, or sending e-mails, and can campaign by phone or in person on days other than the election day.

 

However, in order to conduct election campaigns by sending text messages through automatic mass communication or by entrusting an email transmission agency to send emails, one must register as a candidate or a candidate-to-be.

 

Automatic mass communication is a method of sending messages to more than 20 recipients at the same time or to fewer than 20 recipients by automatically selecting recipients using a program.

 

As the grounds for the presidential impeachment election confirmed, in accordance with Article 90 of the Public Official Election Act, it is not possible to install or post banners or other facilities that specify the name of a political party or the name, photo, or content that can be inferred from the name of a candidate (including a person who is seeking to be a candidate) to influence the election.

 

The National Assembly is also likely to refrain from holding standing committee meetings this month.

 

This is because the early presidential election has a greater weight than the holding of a standing committee meeting for the examination or processing of the bills under its jurisdiction.

 

First of all, the Health and Welfare Committee is likely to not hold a Legislative Subcommittee and plenary session on its bills in April.

 

An opposition member of the Health and Welfare Committee said, “With the early presidential election confirmed, there is a high probability that the bill review under the jurisdiction of the Health and Welfare Committee will be delayed.

 

Although an agreement between the ruling and opposition party secretaries is necessary, I don't think the subcommittees on bills that were normally held during peacetime will be held.”