President Yoon Seok-yeol Meeting with Lee Jae-myung: Focus on ‘People’s Life’ Agenda and Personnel Reform

With President Yoon Seok-yeol and Democratic Party of Korea leader Lee Jae-myung expected to hold their first meeting this week at the Presidential Office in Yongsan, Seoul, attention is on to focus on the agenda to be discussed at the meeting.

The Office of the President and Representative Lee’s side began coordinating the agenda immediately after the meeting ended on the 19th, and are said to be talking behind the scenes. in the special manner of the meeting.

It is expected that ‘people’s lives’ will be the first record that Representative Lee brings to the meeting table. Before that, Representative Lee had requested eight meetings since President Yoon took office to discuss ‘finding a solution to the hardships facing the people’.

In particular, the core of the people’s livelihood agenda that Representative Lee will bring out is expected to be the ‘250,000 won per person for the citizen’s livelihood recovery assistance fund, which he has requested to- again before and after the April 10 general election.

The subsidy ‘250,000 won per person per citizen’ is paid in local currency, and a total budget of 13 trillion won must be invested for this subsidy. To this end, the Democratic Party has asked the government and the governing party to prepare a supplementary budget.

Rep. Lee shared the news of the success of the meeting with President Yoon at the ‘Meeting with Party Members’ event two days ago and said, “We also need to discuss the issue of disaster relief funds national when we meet (with President Yoon) this. hour.”

In addition, it is expected that there will be major issues related to the livelihood of the public, such as the medical vacancy caused by the legislative conflict over ‘increasing the number of medical school students’ , the special law on rental fraud, and the second extortion administrative law. , brought to the discussion table.

In the political world, the ruling party has strongly opposed the ‘Special Prosecution Act on suspicion of external pressure to investigate the death of Corporal Chae of the Marine Corps’, which announced the Representative Lee to be approved by the extraordinary session of the National Assembly in May, as well as the ‘Special Prosecution Act on suspicion of stock price manipulation of the first lady Kim Kun-hee’, which is expected to be the Democratic Party pushing again in the 22nd National Assembly to be included on the agenda.

Some say that since the two decided to meet for the first time under the current administration, the mood for cooperation between the ruling parties and the opposition parties has become difficult, and it is possible that these agendas, which are the destroyers of the political situation. , to be excluded in the process of coordinating the agendas of both sides.

What is also interesting is what Representative Lee will say regarding the selection of a successor to the Prime Minister and the President’s Chief of Staff.

Rep. Lee recently expressed his displeasure when former Democratic Party figures Park Young-sun, former Minister of SMEs and Startups, and Yang Jeong-cheol, former director of the Institute for Democracy , promoted to Prime Minister and Chief of Staff of Hamapyeong, respectively. , calling it a “joint attack under the guise of cooperation.”

However, it is also expected that if President Yoon and Representative Lee reach a consensus on substantial cooperation between the ruling parties and the opposition parties, they may even consider the issue of forming ‘ A so-called Global Cabinet.