Former Blue House spokesman Kim Eui-gyeom succeeds the proportional representative after Kim Jin-ae, a member of the Open Democratic Party (right), resigns. Reporter Oh Jong-taek
Kim Eui-gyeom, a former Blue House spokesman, was succeeded by the resignation of the Open Democratic Party member Kim Jin-ae on the 24th. Former spokesman Kim is a person who resigned from his job during the Blue House period due to the controversy over’real estate speculation’ by purchasing a redevelopment mall in Heukseok-dong, Dongjak-gu, Seoul.
Representative Kim’s resignation letter will be officially resigned at the plenary session of the National Assembly this afternoon. After running as the No. 1 candidate for the proportional representative of the Open Democratic Party, he declared his resignation as a member of the National Assembly last month in order to run for the Seoul Mayor by-election last month. Park Young-seon and Democratic Party candidates and passports were defeated in the single race, but they retained their appreciation.
Former spokesman Kim was the 4th Proportional Representative of the Open Democratic Party and did not qualify for the election at the time of the election. In addition, the seat of a member of the National Land Commission, which is the standing committee of Congressman Kim, is also taken over.
Rep. Kim, who was originally a member of the Legislative Judiciary Committee, swapped the standing committee with Rep. Choi Kang-wook of the same party who was a member of the National Land Commission in November last year. An official from the Open Democratic Party said in News 1, “The change of the standing committee requires the approval of the chairman of the National Assembly, but there is no plan to move it separately. (Former spokesman Kim) is right to go to the National Territorial Committee.”
However, with the recent incident of the Korea Land and Housing Corporation (LH)’three suspected speculation in the third new city’ spreading to the politicians, voices for eradicating speculation by public officials are rising. Therefore, controversy is also expected.
On the 3rd, former spokesman Kim avoided an immediate answer to a question about speculation in the redevelopment mall in Heukseok-dong, saying, “There will be an opportunity to explain my problem separately.”
A commercial house in Heukseok-dong, Dongjak-gu, Seoul, owned by former Blue House spokesman Kim Eui-gyeom. Reporter Park Hyun-joo
Meanwhile, former spokesman Kim was suspicious of speculation after it was revealed that he had purchased a high-priced commercial house while living in an official residence in March 2019. At the time, he explained, “If you retire from the Blue House, you have no house or theft, so you only bought a house, but it does not correspond to speculation.”
He challenged the position of parliamentary office by announcing that he will dispose of the problem commercial housing in December 2019 and donate all profits from the sale. did.
Hyeon-jin Bae, a spokesman for the power of the people, criticized on the 4th that “The whole people are desperate and angry at the great achievement of’Heukseok Kim Eui-gyeom’, who is a member of the National Assembly after success with a real estate lotto and taking a break.
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