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Article: New party blues.
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- YON - Yonhap News Agency of Korea
- Article date:
- August 6, 2007
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(EDITORIAL from the JoongAng Daily on Aug. 6): A new party was launched yesterday with a celebration. Eighty lawmakers who broke off from the Uri Party and five lawmakers from the Democratic Party joined the new group, which makes it the second largest party in the National Assembly.
Contrary to its slogan for grand unification, it further divided the ruling parties. During negotiations to produce a new party, for instance, exclusion took precedence over integration. We wonder why a new party that only confuses citizens has to be formed at all. A party is an organization through which those who share ideas and policies hope to gain power. However, the principles ...