I realize that all of you are busy keeping up the Grand National Party and the party soon to be formally known as the United New Democratic Party. You are, aren’t you?
But you might be interested to know that the Democratic Labor Party is having a run-off this week (Korea Times):
Reps. Kwon Young-ghil and Shim Sang-jeung of the socialist Democratic Labor Party (DLP) are set to vie in a runoff this week to become the party’s presidential candidate after Kwon failed to get support of 50 percent in Sunday’s preliminary vote…
… Kwon fell short of garnering combined support of 50 percent or more in all areas. He earned 49.4 percent of the total eligible votes, while Shim earned 26.1 percent and Rep. Roh Hoe-chan won 24.5 percent.
In most political parties around the world, a candidate getting 24.5% in the first round would concede the race to someone getting 49.4% for the sake of party unity. Of course, if you were the kind of politician who bowed to political reality like that, you wouldn’t be a member of the DLP, would you?
BTW, keep an eye on these guys. If Sohn Hak-kyu wins the “New Party” nomination, the DLP candidate could get up to 10% of the vote in the December 19 presidential election. The DLP candidate might get even more votes if by some miricle Shim beats Kwon and proves that the party is not a one-man show (Kwon being the strongman of the party).
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I guess we can look foward to more “Are you satisfied with your current life?” campaign speeches.
I’m just happy that weasel Roh Hoe-chan is out of the leadership running! Kwon has always struck me as being more of a labor guy than a Northern fifth columnist like some of the DLP guys (hmmm “guys” rhymes with “spies” doesn’t it?) have been seemingly turned out to be. Anyway, one last kick at the can for Kwon appears to be what will happen. I don’t think the GNP can be stopped this time around anyway, regardless of whether the DLP can get 10% of the vote.