President Moon Jae-in and President-elect Yoon Seok-yeol will have their first meeting with a dinner at the Blue House at 6 pm on the 28th. Attention is paid to whether political issues that have been confronted between the old and the new powers during the transition period, such as the relocation of the presidential office, the preparation of an additional supplementary budget, and the conflict over personnel rights, will be resolved.
Blue House spokesperson Park Kyung-mi and elected spokesperson Kim Eun-hye each held a briefing on the 27th and announced the news of the meeting. According to both sides, President Moon conveyed the opinion to Yoon-elect that “I hope to meet as soon as possible.” In response, President-elect Yoon said, “It is important to alleviate the people’s worries. Let’s meet without an agenda and have a candid conversation.” The meeting will be attended by President Yoo Young-min, the chief of staff, and the elected chief of staff, Jang Je-won.
It is the first meeting between President Moon and President-elect Yoon in 19 days since the election day. It is the latest meeting between the incumbent president and the elected president in history. Originally, the two were supposed to have lunch together on the 16th, but it was canceled just four hours before the scheduled time. Since then, conflicts between the two sides have escalated over the appointment of President-elect Yoon’s Oval office and the appointment of the Bank of Korea governor.
Even on the day the meeting agreement was announced, the two sides showed differences in their positions on the 50 trillion won supplementary budget promised by President-elect Yoon. Shin Yong-hyeon, spokesman for the Presidential Transition Committee, said at a regular briefing, “The current government strongly requests that the supplementary budget bill be submitted to the National Assembly.” did. A Blue House official said, “The supplementary budget will watch the discussion between the financial authorities and the National Assembly.”
In the political circles, there are observations that both sides can step back from major issues at this meeting.
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