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[Sports Seoul | Reporter Baek Seung-kwan] About 150 cooperative leaders from the National Association of Successor Farm Management Cooperative Leaders gathered on the 17th at the plaza in front of the NongHyup Central Association headquarters in Jung-gu, Seoul, to demand protection of NongHyup’s autonomy.
The group urged lawmakers to halt unilateral revisions to the NongHyup Act and to reconsider proposals to introduce direct elections for the NongHyup Central Association president.
Park Jung-su, the association’s president, said, “NongHyup is a cooperative organization created by farmers,” and called on lawmakers to ensure any amendment discussions proceed in a manner consistent with the constitution and the principles of the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA).
The National Association was formed in 1996 and now comprises 230 regional NongHyup cooperative chairpersons nationwide.
In their resolution, they called for ▲ guarantees of autonomy and independence grounded in the constitution and cooperative principles; ▲ a halt to revisions of the NongHyup Act carried out without sufficient consultation; ▲ a full reexamination of any move toward direct elections by members; and ▲ respect for NongHyup-centered, autonomous reform.
After the rally, they delivered the resolution to members of the National Assembly’s Committee on Agriculture, Food, Rural Affairs, Oceans and Fisheries.
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