PPP: “Three-hour dinner with President Lee and the DPK was about enforcing discipline, not addressing people’s livelihoods”

[Financial News] The People Power Party criticized President Lee Jae Myung on the 12th over his dinner with the Democratic Party of Korea leadership at Cheong Wa Dae, saying, “People’s livelihoods were pushed to the back burner, and all that took place was a president-centered effort to impose discipline.”
Cho Yong-sul, a spokesperson for the People Power Party, made the point in a commentary that day, saying, “If they had dinner for about three hours, they should spell out what they discussed about livelihood issues and what solutions they came up with to improve people’s lives.”
Cho claimed, “Judging by the publicly released results of the dinner, the main points were not concrete measures for people’s livelihoods, but an insistence that the ruling party and the government move in lockstep, along with a demand that next year’s budget bill be passed according to the president’s wishes.”
He added, “The DPK should instead have spoken frankly to the president,” and stressed, “It should have been an occasion to point out policy failures condemned by the public and call for bold policy changes to improve people’s livelihoods.”
Citing instability in the property market, volatility in the stock market and rising prices, among other issues, he said, “The ruling party’s job is not to watch the president for cues and applaud, but to convey people’s hardships without filtering them and put the brakes on misguided policies.”
He added, “The president’s election is over, but the DPK’s is not. The ruling party should be accountable to the people, not a party loyal to the president.”

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