Heo Jihoon: "Basic Income Party Assemblywoman Yong Hyein, Reported as a Suspect, Unqualified to Audit North Gyeongsang Province"

Plans to Call for Resignation at Press Conference

Heo Jihoon, a North Gyeongsang Provincial Council member from the People Power Party representing proportional seats, is scheduled to hold a press conference at the North Gyeongsang Provincial Government building at 9:40 a.m. on October 20 and call for the following: "Assemblywoman Yong Hye-in of the Basic Income Party is not qualified to audit the North Gyeongsang Provincial Government and the North Gyeongsang Provincial Police Agency."

Yong, a member of the Local Audit Team 2 and a member of the National Assembly's Public Administration and Security Committee, is scheduled to audit the North Gyeongsang Provincial Government and the North Gyeongsang Provincial Police Agency starting at 10 a.m. that day.

Heo Jihoon, Gyeongbuk Provincial Council member

In a statement released in advance, Heo said, "Assemblywoman Yong Hye-in of the Basic Income Party has been reported for alleged violations of the Political Funds Act over accusations that she paid her husband a salary with political funds—taxpayer money." He added, "It undermines the integrity of the parliamentary audit for someone who should be investigated as a suspect to audit the institutions under review."

Heo also said, "The Basic Income Party is a party under investigation after being reported to the police for alleged violations of the Political Parties Act, including setting up fictitious city and provincial party chapters in the form of vinyl greenhouses. I understand that it does not even have a North Gyeongsang provincial chapter to represent the voices of the province's 2.6 million residents."

Heo said, "A person facing criminal allegations who should be investigated because of ethical failings, and who has not even the most basic understanding or knowledge of the region, is in no way qualified to audit North Gyeongsang Province." He urged Yong to "immediately resign from her role on the audit committee for the North Gyeongsang Provincial Government and cooperate fully with the investigation by judicial authorities into the alleged legal violations against her."

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