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President Moon and Lee Jae-myung have a chat at the Blue House Sangchunjae

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President Moon Jae-in had a tea meeting with Democratic Party presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung at Sangchunjae in the Blue House.

It has been 16 days since Lee Jae-myung was elected as the presidential candidate.

Correspondent Seung-Hwan Seong.

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Today’s chat meeting was held for about 50 minutes from 11 am.

President Moon Jae-in started the conversation by congratulating Lee Jae-myung on his election as the Democratic presidential nominee.

It is important to embrace the wounds in the process of competition and become one again, and the meeting with Candidate Lee and former CEO Nak-Yeon Lee was very good.

President Moon said that in the presidential election, policy is the most important thing, and he urged them to find good policies and conduct good competition through policies.

Candidate Jae-myung Lee said that it is not easy to meet one-on-one, but thank you for inviting me.

Candidate Lee said that he had a lot of sympathy for President Moon’s municipal speech at the National Assembly yesterday, saying that he had everything he wanted to say.

In particular, he said that he really sympathized with the need to take the lead in responding to climate change and the emphasis on the need for a large-scale national investment.

Candidate Lee responded that he thinks that President Moon has carried out the Democratic Party’s values ​​of people’s livelihood, reform and peace well, and that he will do his best to make the Moon Jae-in administration a success and historic government.

In a private chat afterward, Candidate Lee apologized for the harsh part in the last presidential election, and President Moon said, “Now that you are the no.

The Blue House also said that President Moon and Candidate Lee agreed on a fair transition for economic recovery and resolving polarization.

Politicians are keen to discuss key issues of the presidential election, including the ‘suspicion of Daejang-dong development corruption’.

A high-ranking official at the Blue House said that the words “Daejang-dong”, “prosecution” and “investigation” did not come out, and that he did not say anything that could sound a little heavy, such as North Korea.

He said that he did not specify a topic for conversation in advance, and decided to avoid topics that could be misunderstood as an election campaign or politically, and he kept his promise.

Regarding the fact that candidate Lee Jae-myung held a meeting 16 days after he was elected as the presidential candidate in the Democratic primary, he explained that it was because he naturally coincided with the presidential candidate’s schedule.

This is Yonhap News TV Sung Seung-hwan.

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