President Moon Jae-in speaks during a video state-of-the-art meeting held at the Cheong Wa Dae Women’s House. news
President Moon Jae-in said to President-elect Yoon Seok-yeol on the 24th, “What kind of negotiations and conditions are necessary for a meeting between the president and the elected president? I hope that the elected president will decide for himself without listening to others.”
It is unusual for President Moon to mention Yoon-elect directly. As the meeting continued for a long time, it seems to have been made clear that President-elect Yoon’s misjudgment was responsible for the spread of power conflicts between the old and the new.
President Moon Jae-in said at a meeting of the Blue House staff on the same day, “I have to say something because I am frustrated. I am the president who will soon step down, and the president-elect Yoon will be the new president,” said Park Soo-hyeon, senior presidential secretary for public communication at the Blue House.
“I’ve never heard of a president-elect saying that negotiations and conditions were necessary to prevent an incumbent president,” Moon said. During the working-level negotiations, as the confrontation continued over issues such as the right to appoint auditors of the Board of Audit and Inspection and the relocation of the president’s office, he urged President-elect Yoon to make a ‘direct decision’.
President Moon made it clear that the incumbent president has the right to appoint public institutions. A high-ranking Blue House official met with reporters and said, “It is clear that personnel appointments are the responsibility of the incumbent president until the president’s term. President-elect Yoon’s demand for personnel rights was criticized as ‘over-the-top’.
The meeting between President Moon and President-elect Yoon has already become the latest meeting in history. It has been two weeks since the last presidential election on the 9th. President Moon has been urging for a ‘meeting without conditions according to custom’, but Yoon-elect’s position is that ‘for a smooth start of state affairs, an agreement on the transfer of personnel rights is necessary’.
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