A legal revision is needed to give the prime minister more authority in actively guiding Cabinet discussions on important issues, members of a government blue-ribbon panel on administrative reform agreed July 30.
During a meeting of a subcommittee of the Administrative Reform Council, members agreed to revise Article 4 of the Cabinet Law to enable the prime minister to directly make suggestions on policy-related matters during Cabinet meetings.
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