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Yong Hye-in’s party rejects calls for her resignation: “We will create a new precedent”

From Chosun Ilbo · () Korean

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  • South Korea’s Basic Income Party rejected calls for proportional-representation lawmaker Yong Hye-in to give up her seat while being considered for a ministerial post.
  • Party leaders said criticism reflected prejudice against proportional lawmakers and excessive attacks on young women.
  • They argued that holding both positions could create a new precedent.

The Basic Income Party has rejected demands that proportional-representation lawmaker Yong Hye-in resign while she is being considered as a candidate for minister of gender equality and family.

The dispute centers on whether a proportional lawmaker can simultaneously serve as a minister. The party said the debate also contained prejudice against proportional-representation lawmakers and excessive criticism of young women.

Party supreme council members Kim Jin-seo, Roh Seo-young and Shin Ji-hye said Yong’s case represented an attempt to open a new path. They argued that the process could establish a precedent for a proportional lawmaker to hold a ministerial post while retaining her parliamentary seat.

We will create a new precedent.

· Basic Income PartyThe party defended Yong Hye-in’s ability to pursue the ministerial post without resigning her proportional-representation seat.
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