Justice Party "President Yoon Emphasizing Bipartisan Cooperation, Whose President Comes to Mind with Disconnected Speech Style"

"Empty Praise Cannot Conceal Failures in Livelihood and Governance"

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[Asia Economy Reporter Naju-seok] The Justice Party criticized President Yoon Seok-yeol's budget policy speech for next year, stating, "Empty self-praise cannot cover up failures in people’s livelihoods and governance."

On the 25th, Kim Hee-seo, spokesperson for the Justice Party, said, "The budget is an expression of policy will and an indicator of government management, so I had hoped for a public apology and a progressive change in governance in this important policy speech. However, what we received was a disappointing speech with neither apology nor change," adding, "Focusing on empty self-praise to cover up failures in people’s livelihoods and governance, the speech was a continuous series of nonsensical statements lacking coherence, let alone sincerity and a vision for national management."

Spokesperson Kim pointed out, "They claim to have increased the budget for the socially vulnerable, but it is nothing more than a trick of taking from the bottom to support the top," and added, "Even now, in front of the National Assembly, ordinary citizens are protesting the drastic cuts to the public rental housing budget, and the budgets for supporting small and medium-sized enterprises, small business owners, and youth have also been significantly reduced, leading to ongoing public protests."

He continued, "In the face of the precarious reality of people’s livelihoods, the fiscal soundness emphasized by the president is nothing but idle rhetoric that shifts the economic crisis onto ordinary citizens, workers, and small business owners," and said, "It is disheartening to see the designation of unsafe and uneconomical ‘bokmajeon’ nuclear power plants as a growth strategy and the plan to expand investment in them."

Spokesperson Kim stated, "At the final scene where the president, who is at the center of parliamentary deadlock and extreme political strife by ignoring the National Assembly and the rule of law, talks about bipartisan cooperation, it reminded me of the dissociative rhetoric of a failed past president," and concluded, "This policy speech is the crowning failure of President Yoon Seok-yeol’s governance, with no apology even once for personnel failures, policy failures, and government incompetence."

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