Kim Jae-seop proposes a bill mandating resignation from his/her position when taking proportional representation.

“Yong Hye-in’s greed exposes loopholes in the current concurrent job system”

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Noh Seon-woong = On the 4th, Rep. Kim Jae-seop of the People Power Party proposed a bill to amend the National Assembly Act, which would require a proportional representative member of the National Assembly to retire from his or her position and be succeeded to the seat by a junior candidate if he or she is appointed as Prime Minister or State Council member.

Under the current law, members of the National Assembly can concurrently hold the position of Prime Minister or State Councilor, but in the case of proportional representation members, they can be succeeded by a junior candidate, so they have customarily resigned upon entering office.

However, controversy erupted when Representative Yong Hye-in of the Basic Income Party, who was recently nominated as a candidate for Minister of Gender Equality and Family, virtually refused to resign from her position.

Rep. Kim emphasized the need to revise the law, saying, “Yong Hye-in’s greed of not giving up both positions exposed the loopholes in the current concurrent position system.”