Lawmakers to vote on extra budget bill, special counsel for online opinion rigging scandal

  • 6 years ago
After weeks of inaction,... South Korea's National Assembly is set to vote this evening on a multi-billion dollar supplementary budget and a special counsel to investigate an online opinion rigging scandal.
Rival party lawmakers agreed on Friday to limit the timeframe for a special counsel probe into the so-called "Druking" scandal to 90 days and to have three senior prosecutors work on it.
As for the government's roughly three-point-seven billion dollar supplementary budget bill, the parties will decide whether to green light the funds that will be used to tackle youth unemployment.
The plenary session begins at 9PM, Korea time.

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