China News Service, Seoul, March 23 (Liu Xu and Liu Jingni) As of 10:00 local time (9:00 Beijing time) on the 23rd, more than 440,000 South Koreans have participated in the Blue House's "National Petition" against President-elect Yin Xiyue. The Office of the President was moved to Yongsan.
It is reported that on the 20th of this month, Yin Xiyue announced that the presidential office in the Blue House will be moved to the Ministry of National Defense Building in Yongsan District, Seoul, and the Blue House will be opened to the public on May 10, the first day of his tenure.
According to Korean media speculation, the relocation of the presidential office is expected to cost 49.6 billion won (about 260 million yuan).
A reporter from Chinanews.com saw on the national petition page of the official website of the Blue House on the 23rd that the petition against the relocation of President Yin Xiyue's office was classified as "diplomacy, unification and national defense".
The number of participants ranked second in the petition, after the number of people (474,000) who demanded a thorough investigation of Yin Xiyue and his wife Kim Gunhee's alleged stock price manipulation in the 2011 Busan Savings Bank corruption case.
In the petition, the initiators wrote that the decision not only poses a threat to national security, but also costs hundreds of millions of won of people's hard-earned money for no reason. "An act of arrogance".
People participating in the petition hope that the Blue House and the National Assembly can prevent Yin Xiyue from implementing the plan.
In terms of polls, according to Yonhap News Agency, the results of a survey released by Korean polling agency Media Tomato on the 22nd local time showed that 58.1% of the respondents opposed Yin Xiyue’s move of the presidential office to Longshan.
The results of the Korean media Media Herald survey also showed that the approval rate of Yin Xiyue (49.2%) a week after his election also dropped by 3.5 percentage points from the time he was first elected (52.7%), which is far lower than the approval rate of previous presidents at the same period (Lee Myung-bak 79.3%). %, Park Geun-hye 64.4%, Moon Jae-in 74.8%).
In addition to the Korean people, Korean political circles have also questioned the matter.
In an interview on the 22nd local time, Park Soo-hyun, the first secretary of Han Blue House's communication with the people, said that the Blue House did not know about the relocation plan of the President's Office before.
Although the current government has no objection to this, it is hoped that the two sides can conduct comprehensive coordination and communication on possible problems.
Since the current President Moon Jae-in still serves as the supreme commander of the military in charge of national crisis management before the new president takes office on May 10, Moon Jae-in is ultimately responsible for the national security alert situation, and the relocation of the presidential office is likely to lead to a blank national security, etc. When problems arise, both parties must come up with relevant solutions.
It is reported that after Moon Jae-in and Yin Xiyue's original meeting plan on the 16th of this month fell through, the two sides have not yet rescheduled the meeting schedule.
South Korean Defense Minister Xu Xu also publicly stated on the 22nd that without investigating the feasibility, the candidate president will cause a lot of worries to arrange the relocation too quickly.
Yin Haozhong, chairman of the emergency response committee of the ruling party's Common Democratic Party, slammed it, saying that the transfer of a front-line troop also takes nearly several years, and it is impossible to relocate the Ministry of National Defense in just two months.
Han's "Central Daily" said that the current government's statement is equivalent to cutting off the "legal authority" and "funding source" needed for the relocation plan of President Yin Xiyue's office at the same time.
Yin Xiyuefang also made a strong protest against this, saying that the Moon Jae-in government "brightly contradicts the new government" and "violates political morality".
In addition, relevant people including Park In-sook, deputy representative of the Justice Party, worry that the "No. 1 decision" of the relocation of President Yin Xiyue's office predicts that in the next five years, he will run state affairs with "unflexible and arbitrary" leadership.
Yin Xiyue not only did not study the relevant laws and regulations this time, but also forcibly pushed forward the relocation plan without prior consultation with the ruling party.
In this regard, some experts pointed out that Yin Xiyue's first thing should be to apologize for his "Gwanghwamun Era" campaign promise, and then consider whether to relocate.
The "Han Minzu Daily" suggested that Yin Xiyue's best choice at present is to temporarily stay at the Blue House after taking office, collect public opinion and relevant expert opinions, and come up with a reasonable relocation plan before putting it into practice.
Otherwise, Yin Xiyue, who ignored the will of the people before taking office, will "go against the wind of public sentiment" in the process of ruling.
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