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Article: Bulldozer style President Lee, ruling party slammed for canal project.
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- YON - Yonhap News Agency of Korea
- Article date:
- March 31, 2008
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(EDITORIAL from the Korea Times on March 31): The cross-country canal project has emerged as a hot campaign issue for the upcoming April 9 general elections.The governing Grand National Party (GNP) withheld President Lee Myung-bak's canal plan from its list of election pledges last week because opinion polls showed a majority of the people opposing the controversial project. GNP Chairman Kang Jae-sup said the conservative party has decided to do without the plan in electioneering.Kang claimed the reason was not because the canal scheme is feared to become a campaign issue, but because the party intends to review it. He even said the President and his party might ...