President Yoon Suk Yeol speaks throughout a press convention on the presidential workplace in Yongsan, Seoul, on Aug. 29, 2024. (Yonhap)
President Yoon Suk Yeol is not going to attend the opening ceremony of the common session of the Nationwide Meeting early this week, a presidential official stated Sunday, citing the opposition get together’s unilateral actions to cross essential payments.
The Nationwide Meeting is about to start its common session on Monday and it’s customary for the president to attend the opening occasion and ship a speech.
“It’s applicable to first normalize the Nationwide Meeting, which has been misusing particular counsel and impeachment procedures, earlier than inviting the president,” a presidential official advised Yonhap Information Company.
“We will solely suspect that the intention is to ask the president to then solely stage a protest and humiliate him in public,” the official stated.
The opening ceremony for the twenty second Meeting, initially set for July 5, was boycotted by the ruling Individuals Energy Celebration (PPP) amid intense partisan strife over the opposition-led Meeting’s unilateral legislative actions. The PPP had additionally requested that Yoon not attend the ceremony.
The ceremony had been delay indefinitely, till the rival events agreed to carry the occasion along side the beginning of the twenty second Meeting’s first common session.
If Yoon doesn’t attend, it is going to be the primary time since 1987 {that a} president has skipped the opening ceremony. (Yonhap)
