President Yoon Seok-yeol and People Power Party Representative Han Dong-hoon will meet at the Presidential Office in Yongsan, Seoul on the 21st.
According to the President’s Office on the 18th, President Yoon Seok-yeol and Representative Han Dong-hoon will meet at the President’s Office at 4:30 pm on the 21st to discuss various national affairs issues without restrictions on the agenda. It is known that Presidential Chief of Staff Jeong Jin-seok will be attending the event in addition to the President and the ruling party leader.
Regarding the meeting schedule, CEO Dong-Hoon Han said, “We will fully discuss the need for change and reform, as well as current issues related to people’s livelihoods.” In addition, regarding whether Chief Secretary Jeong Jin-seok would be present, Park Jeong-ha, Chief of Staff of the People Power Party, reported that Representative Han Dong-hoon had stated, “It is an event where the President and the representative of the ruling party discuss national affairs on behalf of the government and the ruling party, so whether or not he is present is not important.”
According to the ruling party on the 10th, the President’s Office staff suggested that President Yoon meet alone with Representative Han. People Power Party leadership officials are also said to have emphasized ‘unity’ through various channels in the President’s Office. Accordingly, President Yoon accepted the recommendation of the Presidential Office staff.
The political world predicts that a meeting between the president and the ruling party leader on the 21st will focus on discussing solutions to the political offensive of the opposition party, which links First Lady Kim Kun-hee. The key question is how much the president will accept the demands of the ruling party leader in this difficult meeting.
Before the President’s private meeting on the 21st, Representative Han publicly discussed ‘three demands’ regarding First Lady Kim Kun-hee, including ▲ personnel reform, ▲ cessation of foreign activities, and ▲ cooperation in investigating suspicions. There is also a possibility that the president and the ruling party leader will discuss the matter openly. In addition, in order to recover the people’s livelihood, measures for small business owners and the self-employed and measures for the delay in the abolition of the financial investment income tax are likely to be on the discussion table.
Inside and outside the ruling party, expectations were expressed about the meeting between the president and the ruling party leader on the 21st.
Song Jae-wook, former special advisor to Gyeonggi Province at the People Power Party headquarters, said in a phone call with a reporter that day, “Although we are on the political defensive, I think the president and the ruling party leader will somehow achieve results this time.” He added, “This private meeting should not end in an empty-handed meeting.” “The sense of crisis is the overall airflow flowing through the passport,” he explained.
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