From news reports President Park Geun-hye will meet with new leaders of her ruling Saenuri Party this week, with Cheong Wa Dae and the ruling party moving to mend ties as the government enters the second half of its term this summer. Saenuri Party chairman Rep. Kim Moo-sung, who just celebrated his first anniversary of assuming the post, told reporters that the meeting would take place Thursday. The arrangement was made upon a visit by Hyun Ki-hwan, Park’s new senior secretary for political affairs. The new leadership includes floor leader Rep. Won Yoo-chul and chief policymaker Rep. Kim Jung-hoon, who were selected to the post also on Tuesday. Park’s meeting with new party leaders will be the first since February. The meeting comes after tensions rose between Park and her ruling party over a bill that would have given greater administrative power to the National Assembly. Park denounced former floor leader Rep. Yoo Seong-min for what she called the “politics of betrayal” and blamed him for giving into opposition pressure to approve the bill. Park later vetoed the bill, and Yoo quit his position by accepting the party’s resolution recommending his resignation.


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