EARLY EDITION 18:00 Ruling party floor leader apologizes to president for upheaval

ARIRANG NEWS 18:00 Title: Ruling party floor leader apologizes to president for upheaval over parliamentary law Ruling Saenuri Party Floor Leader Yoo Seong-min has publicly apologized to the president for the latest political upheaval over revisions to a controversial parliamentary bill. A day after President Park vetoed the revised parliamentary bill,... even accusing the floor leader of doing politics for personal interests,... Yoo said he was sorry but that he, of all people, earnestly hopes for the success of the president and her administration. The president said the bill, which would have given parliament power to request changes to ordinances, could be unconstitutional. The Saenuri floor leader also vowed to normalize the party′s relations with the presidential office and the government. But ruling party lawmakers close to the president are pressuring Yoo to step down, and there is speculation some members of the party′s supreme council may withdraw, which will deal a blow to the party leadership. Title: Main opposition harshly criticizes President Park′s veto of law However, on the other end of the spectrum, the leader of Korea′s main opposition party slammed President Park Geun-hye′s decision to veto the revised parliamentary law. Park Ji-won tells us more. In a public address on Friday morning,... Chairman of the New Politics Alliance for Democracy Moon Jae-in accused the presidential office of fueling political strife. He said now is the time for the president to apologize for the government′s poor initial handling of the MERS outbreak,.. instead of disregarding the National Assembly and threatening democracy. He added that the president′s veto violates the spirit of the Constitution,... as it infringes on the National Assembly′s legislative duties. "It is a direct attack on the parliament′s legislative power,.. the administration is attempting to manipulate the law and reign over the assembly. It is a violation of the Constitutional which stipulates division of powers. It′s unacceptable." The floor leader of the main opposition party also said on Friday that the vetoed law was agreed upon by both parties. "It began with the implementing ordinances of the special Sewol-ho ferry law which violated the core elements of the special ferry law. The vetoed law represents the will of the parliament to change the situation. Both rival parties agreed on the bill." The revised parliamentary law that sparked the standoff between the assembly and the presidential office,... allows the parliament to request modification of executive ordinances that are not in accordance with the original law. The floor leader of the liberal party stressed,... that the assembly made clear,... that its request for changing the ordinances was merely a suggestion and NOT legally-binding,...presenting no real threat to administrative power. However, he accused the presidential office of causing unnecessary political wrangl