Assembly weighs NEC election commission, constitutional amendment

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• ·Police officers stand guard outside the SK Olympic Handball Gymnasium in Seoul's Songpa-gu, which had been used as a vote-counting center, as protesters continue their demonstrations Sunday over shortages of ballot papers in the June 3 lcoal elections.
• ·(Yonhap) South Korea’s two main parties are moving to overhaul the National Election Commission, launching separate task forces in response to ballot shortages during the June 3 local elections.
• ·The ruling Democratic Party of Korea and main opposition People Power Party broadly agree that there is a need to improve the commission’s administrative capacity and strengthen oversight of the body, sources said Sunday.
• ·But they differ sharply over how far the reform should go, with the Democratic Party leaning toward institutional repairs while preserving the NEC’s constitutional independence and the People Power Party calling for a more fundamental restructuring.
• ·The debate has also opened the door to a possible constitutional amendment, as the NEC is an independent constitutional body whose composition and status are set out in the Constitution.