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Korean President proposes constitutional revision to fix 5-year single-term presidential system
- Collected
- 2016.10.25
- Distributed
- 2016.10.26
- Source
- Go Direct
During her parliamentary speech to outline budget plans for 2017, Park said her administration will establish a committee to work on the Constitutional reform. She stressed that the move is not politically motivated but to design a governance system that could last the next 50 or 100 years.
She urged lawmakers to make a separate parliamentary committee to tap public opinion and come up with its own outline.
Park had previously been vehemently against the changes in the 1987 Constitution that systematized a direct election for a president with fixed five-year tenure without second term to end decades of extended military regimes.
“The single five-year presidential term under the Constitution, that has been in place for 30 years since the last amendment in 1987, was appropriate during the past democratization process, but it has now become outdated clothing that no longer fit our body,” she said.
Park further said the momentum has been built for another reform as in 1987 among the people and lawmakers.
Kim Jae-won, senior presidential secretary for political affairs, told reporters that the president can propose a Constitutional amendment on behalf of the government. She does not have specific idea on the replacement system for the single-term presidential system, he said.
By Nam Gi-hyun
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