Gyeonggi Province postpones press conference on the 100th day of Governor Choo Mi-ae's inauguration... “Focus on processing the supplementary budget”

(Suwon = Yonhap News) Reporter Choi Chan-heung = Gyeonggi Province announced on the 5th that the press conference held on the 100th day of Governor Choo Mi-ae's inauguration will be postponed until after the supplementary budget is processed.

Gyeonggi Province spokesman Hong Eun-kwang said in a press notice that day, "In the serious situation where the supplementary budget bill has not been processed, we have decided to focus all our capabilities on processing the supplementary budget bill."

Spokesperson Hong added, "Gyeonggi Province will do its best to process the supplementary budget despite difficult financial conditions, while focusing on its role as provincial government to ensure that essential livelihood projects and major provincial government issues are promoted without hesitation."

Originally, Gyeonggi Province planned to hold a press conference and press conference on the 100th day of Governor Chu's inauguration at 10:30 a.m. on the 7th at Danwon Hall of the provincial office to announce the direction of the 9th popularly elected provincial government and conduct a Q&A with reporters.

To overcome the financial crisis, Gyeonggi Province compiled a second supplementary budget bill worth 42.242 trillion won, reflecting an expenditure restructuring of 546.5 billion won, and submitted it to the extraordinary session of the Provincial Council (1st to 18th) last month. However, it was not processed during the session due to differences of opinion with the Provincial Council on restoring some of the people's livelihood budget. Since then, the Provincial Council has submitted several amendments, but has not been able to find a compromise to date.