The Democratic Party of Korea adjusted the contentious bills to be handled at the plenary session on the 25th. Instead of the rules to adjust the fixed number of National Assembly standing committees following the government reorganization, it decided to place on the agenda the amendment to the Act on Testimony and Appraisal Before the National Assembly (testimony and appraisal act), which would allow the plenary to vote to file a complaint even after the term of the relevant committee ends if perjury is revealed in the National Assembly. It also designated four bills—the Act on the Management of Public Institutions, the Statistics Act, the Act on Meritorious Persons for Democracy, and the Act on the Protection of Public Interest Whistleblowers—as a fast track, while excluding nine bills to amend the Government Organization Act related to the restructuring of financial authorities.
The Democratic Party decided this at a general meeting of lawmakers held after a meeting between the ruling and opposition floor leaders broke down that afternoon.
When the People Power Party said it would counter the ruling party's push to amend the Government Organization Act with a filibuster, the party decided, given the physical circumstances, to postpone non-controversial bills and first put forward only four contentious bills. The items to be placed on the agenda are the amendment to the Government Organization Act, which includes abolishing the Supreme Prosecutors' Office and reorganizing the economic ministries; the act to establish the Broadcasting, Media and Communications Commission; the amendment to the National Assembly Act; and the amendment to the National Assembly testimony and appraisal act.
Originally, the Democratic Party included in the package the amendment to the rules on the fixed number of Commissioners for National Assembly standing committees, but it removed that and added the testimony and appraisal act. Because the standing committee adjustment is a "ruling–opposition agreement" matter, it could not be pushed due to opposition party resistance and will be discussed later. Immediately after the general meeting, floor spokesperson Moon Keum-ju explained, "(The number adjustment) can be done later, so we are not bringing it up this time, and it has been decided to first place the more important National Assembly testimony and appraisal act on the agenda."
The amendment to the testimony and appraisal act would allow the National Assembly plenary to vote to file a complaint if perjury is revealed after the term of activity for a special committee, such as a parliamentary inquiry committee, has ended. In political circles, there is an interpretation that the bill targets former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo. The Democratic Party has viewed as perjury the testimony by Han and other senior officials of the Yoon Suk-yeol administration at the "special committee for investigating the truth about the proclamation of emergency martial law" that they did not receive the relevant documents on the day martial law was declared, and has moved to file complaints through a legal revision.
The Democratic Party also decided to designate four bills as fast-track items. It had planned to push 11 bills, including the act to establish the Financial Supervisory Commission, onto the fast track, but as the Chairpersons of the Political Affairs Committee and the Strategy and Finance Committee are from the People Power Party and bill processing was delayed, it had sought detour legislation through the fast track.
However, as the party-government leadership withdrew that day the financial authority reorganization plan centered on separating the Financial Services Commission and creating a Financial Consumer Protection Institute, the bills under the Political Affairs Committee's purview were excluded from the fast-track list. Accordingly, the Democratic Party decided to designate only four bills—the Act on the Management of Public Institutions and the Statistics Act under the Strategy and Finance Committee's purview, along with the Act on Meritorious Persons for Democracy and the Act on the Protection of Public Interest Whistleblowers—as fast-track items.