In a move to oppose the anti-terrorism bill being passed in the South Korean Parliament the opposition party spoke continuously for more than 115 hours making it the longest filibuster.
Flash points
- President Park Geun-hye’s office called for a parliamentary session to pass the stalled security bill ahead of the high tension with North Korea after their fourth nuclear test and test of long range missile
- This bill enables the Intelligence authorities to monitor even private conversations
- The opposition party members feared of the privacy being hindered by this move
- To oppose this they started the filibuster on Tuesday morning which continued till Sunday making it the longest in the world
- It accounted for 115 hours of conversation in total
- It surpassed the 58 hours filibuster previously by 103 members of Canada’s Democratic party in 2011
- 23 members from the opposition party South Korea spoke on an average of 5 hours each
- Opposition lawmaker Jung Chung Rae spoke for 11 hours and 39 minutes on Saturday making it the longest by any individual
Points to note
- The members of the conservative ruling party Saenuri who have 157 seats out of 293, call this move by opposition parties as a delay in passage of other bills
- This filibuster record was published in Kyunghyang Shinmun newspaper of South Korea
- South Korea capital- Seoul
- Next parliamentary election for South Korea to be held in April
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