In the subcommittee of the National Land Transport Commission’s bill review held at the National Assembly on the 19th, subcommittee Lee Heon-seung and members of the committee are deciding on a bill to promote the construction of the Busan Gadeokdo New Airport. yunhap news
In addition, the Democratic Party and the power of the people passed the Gadeokdo New Airport Special Case Act, which contained a controversial preliminary feasibility (preliminary) examination exemption clause at the standing committee of the National Assembly on the 19th. The bill, which passed the National Assembly’s Land, Transport and Transportation Committee, contains details such as exemption from preliminary investigations, and simplification of prior feasibility studies if necessary.
The Gadeokdo New Airport Project is a super-large project with a budget of around 10 trillion won expected. Although a preliminary survey to review the policy and economic feasibility of the project is essential, it is compelling to criticize the politics of the politicians who gave up even minimal verification in order to get votes 40 days before the Busan mayoral by-election. It’s ridiculous that the Democratic Party, which criticized the Lee Myung-bak administration’s exemption from preliminary investigations for the four major river projects during the past opposition party, changed its position to’then, then, now’, but on this day, “Even if the election is urgent, it is better to keep the basic things to be kept.” The power of the people, which they professed to be, eventually took the hands of the Democratic Party and could not be free from this accusation.
The politicians’ behavior to use large-scale national projects for elections was not yesterday and today, but now they are not even trying to keep formal procedures. In November of last year, the Democratic Party, which arbitrarily interpreted the conclusion of the Gimhae New Airport Verification Committee, which pointed out a legal flaw in the process of promoting the Gimhae New Airport project, as the construction of the new airport on Gadeok Island, proposed a special law, and the National Assembly Budget Office was so “blooming” that even cost estimates could not be attached. It is representative.
Due to the exemption from preliminary investigations under the Special Act on New Airports in Gadeok Island, there is no reason to refuse even if other regions also request preferential treatment for national projects. Conscious of the votes of the Daegu-Gyeongbuk region, the power of the people who inwardly opposed the Gadeokdo New Airport Special Act has been pushing for the passage of the Daegu-Gyeongbuk New Airport Special Act in terms of equity. This airport construction project was planned to be carried out by covering construction costs with the cost of the sale of the existing Daegu Military Airport site, but it seems to be a calculation that it will alleviate the complaints of local residents with a special law that can receive financial support from the government. It seems that the future of the country is not even in the politics of overdoing the airport special law because it is blind to the local vote.
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