South Korea's Yoon to meet opposition leader amid bid to reset presidency

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SEOUL: South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol will meet opposition leader Lee Jae-myung for talks on Monday (Apr 29) after a crushing election defeat for the p

South Korea n President Yoon Suk Yeol speaks during an interview with KBS at the Presidential Office in Seoul, South Korea on Feb 4, 2024. SEOUL: South Korea n President Yoon Suk Yeol will meet opposition leader Lee Jae-myung for talks on Monday after aYoon's People Power Party failed to make inroads into the opposition's grip on parliament in the Apr 10 election, which was widely seen as a referendum on the conservative leader's first two years in power.

Both the opposition and his own PPP urged Yoon to change course, especially after he initially appeared to shrug off the election result which in turn sent his support ratings in opinion polls plunging to their lowest point of around 20 per cent. In a sign of the political wrangling to get an upper hand, aides to Yoon and Lee struggled to agree on the time and agenda for their meeting for more than a week before Lee proposed to sit down with no preconditions or set agenda.

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