*Burkina Faso’s Junta appoints Rimtalba Jean-Emmanuel Ouedraogo as new Prime Minister.
*John Dramani Mahama wins in Ghanaian Presidential Election.
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*John Dramani Mahama wins in Ghanaian Presidential Election.
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00:00And we now move on to other topics.
00:02The Speaker of the South Korean National Assembly, Woo Won-shik, called the joint exercise of
00:08presidential power by the Prime Minister and the ruling party unconstitutional.
00:14This comes after Prime Minister Han Duk-so and the leader of the ruling People's Power
00:19Party, Han Dong-hong, vowed to minimize the chaos through an early and orderly departure
00:27of the president after announcing their decision to jointly exercise presidential power.
00:33He also criticized the ruling party for not participating in the constitutional due process
00:38of voting for a no-confidence motion.
00:42The Speaker of the South Korean National Assembly recalled that if the Prime Minister and the
00:46ruling party were to jointly exercise presidential power, they would be in flagrant violation
00:52of the constitution.
00:58It is a clear commitment that the Prime Minister and the ruling party will jointly exercise
01:02the right of the president, which no one else has given, without participating in the legal
01:07procedures that ask for the responsibility of the president.
01:12And also the President of the National Assembly of South Korea, Woo Won-shik, reminded that
01:17only the people can grant and remove presidential power and that the process must be governed
01:22by the constitution.
01:26I would like to start by saying that the legislation is not in the hands of the people.
01:31The president cannot decide the adoption of the power of the president.
01:34The power of the president and the adoption of the power of the president are both from
01:38the people, and the procedure must be in accordance with the principles of the constitution and
01:43the sovereignty of the people.
01:48In other news, in Burkina Faso, the President of South Korea appointed a former Minister
01:52of Education, Culture, Arts and Tourism, Riptal Vajin Emanuel Uedrogo, as new Prime
01:58Minister.
01:59This way, the President, Ibrahim Traore, dissolved the government and decreed on Friday the termination
02:05of functions of the former Prime Minister, Apollinaire Joachim Clem de Tembala, who served
02:11as head of three successive governments since 2022.
02:15The decree expresses that the Prime Minister's official functions are terminated, with the
02:20country's Secretary General of Government making the announcement.
02:23Burkina Faso, a previous French colony, has prioritized restoring national sovereignty
02:29and has frequently criticized Western powers.
02:40The President of Burkina Faso, head of state, in line with the constitution and the transition
02:46charter of October 14, 2022, and its amendment of May 25, 2024, decrees that Mr. Riem Tolbe
02:55Yeni Emanuel Uedrogo is appointed Prime Minister.
03:00And the former President of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama, won the elections held this Saturday
03:05in the West African country and will take office as head of state for a four-year term.
03:11Mahama, candidate of the National Democratic Congress party, bit the candidate of the new
03:17patriotic party, the MPP, the current Vice President Mahmoudou Boumia, winning the presidential
03:23election.
03:25After the result was known, Boumia conceded the defeat and expressed his congratulations
03:30to Mahama for the victory, while expressing his full support for the transition process.
03:36Mahama served as the nation's president from the year 2012 to 2017.
03:41The first president born after Ghana's independence from the United Kingdom in 1957.
03:53And in other news, the Russian government denounced Ukraine's refusal to engage in
03:57dialogues on the conditions for peace negotiations.
04:01The Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov detailed that the proposal for peace negotiations have
04:07already been presented by the Russian President Vladimir Putin, however, they have been repeatedly
04:13rejected by the Ukrainian side, whose authorities maintain their refusal to start talks.
04:19Recently, the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky by decree prohibited himself and
04:24his administration from any contact with the Russian Executive Cabinet to discuss diplomatic
04:29agreements.
04:30The last round of talks between Moscow and Kyiv to reach an agreement to end hostilities
04:35took place in the year 2022 and have not been resumed since.