The ruling and opposition parties agreed to pass 90 livelihood-related bills at the plenary session on the 29th. The People Power Party also decided not to launch a filibuster (a lawful obstruction of proceedings through unlimited debate) at this plenary session.
Cheon Jun-ho, senior deputy floor leader for operations of the Democratic Party of Korea, and Yoo Sang-bum, senior deputy floor leader for operations of the People Power Party, met at the National Assembly on the afternoon of the 28th to reach agreement on the plenary agenda.
After the meeting, Senior Deputy Floor Leader Yoo told reporters, "We agreed to place a total of 90 bills on the agenda of tomorrow's (29th) plenary session, and we agreed to withdraw those for which a filibuster had been requested."
Senior Deputy Floor Leader Cheon also said, "Of the 175 bills placed on the plenary agenda, we agreed through consultations between the ruling and opposition parties to give priority to bills related to urgent livelihood issues and to pass 90 of them," adding, "There is likely to be a meeting between the floor leaders today (the 28th), and we expect to finalize it after additional discussions."
Whether to place on the plenary agenda the amendment to the National Assembly Act, which would allow the National Assembly speaker to delegate the authority to preside to another lawmaker, will be decided through a meeting between the two parties' floor leaders. The amendment to the National Assembly Act is intended to ease the presiding burden on the speaker's chair as filibusters have continued at every plenary session.
Senior Deputy Floor Leader Yoo explained, "Given the interest in the National Assembly Act, more discussion is needed, so we agreed to take it up again when there is consultation between the floor leaders."