Posted on 11/27/2006 8:51:04 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Popularity of South Korea's ruling party nosedives
1 hour, 36 minutes ago
The popularity of South Korea's ruling Uri party has fallen to an all-time low of 8.8 percent, a news report has said.
A survey sponsored by two Internet firms showed strong support for the main opposition Grand National Party (GNP) of 44.3 percent, the Korea Times reported.
The minor opposition Democratic Party won 8.5 percent while the leftist Democratic Labor Party took 8.4 percent, according to the survey conducted on November 22, with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.7 percent.
Uri secured its highest approval rating of around 50 percent in March 2004 after an unsuccessful bid by opposition parties to impeach President Roh Moo-Hyun.
Roh's own approval rating has also plummeted to an all-time low of 11 percent, according to an opinion poll this month.
On Monday, in a further setback, he scrapped plans to appoint his nominee as head of the Constitutional Court after months of protests by opposition legislators.
Roh, a former human-rights lawyer elected on a reformist platform, has alienated supporters by soft-pedaling on social issues while losing mainstream support because of economic problems such as soaring housing costs.
Uri in May lost 15 out of 16 local elections, leaving the GNP in control of major cities and provinces across the country.
A presidential election will be held in December 2007. Roh is constitutionally barred from standing again.
This is not much different. They pretty much destroyed themselves and the country. They have no know-how nor experience to govern a major industrial nation effectively. They were obsessed with left-wing ideological agendas of 80's, which is hardly relevant now.
They waged war against just about every major component of society. Destroy the old, and the utopia will miraculously emerge. It may be hard to believe, but many of them are in late 30's and early 40's and still cling to this naive but destructive idea.
Ping!
the least of their concerns is a nuclear NK
Somebody going be roaney and out of job
South Korea's ruling party nosedives firmly into the brown of DPRK's ass, only to find it's the same ole' stuff.
The old Nuclear peanut butter in to the South's Big Economy chocolate doesn't make a good Reese's Peanut Butter Cup commercial after all.
It is there. Many who voted for Roh try hard to play it down because they are collaborators in perpetuating this mess. Many took up "fiscally conservative and socially liberal" stance. However, it will not be able to stem the tidal wave when the dam called N. Korean regime breaks down.
You won't get away with playing Hippie pinkos in S. Korea for long. The bill would be due a lot quicker and staggering.
What social policies was he talking about there?
Restricting the market share of conservative newspapers.
Taking over the control of private schools
They raised a lot of taxes in the name of public health or welfare. Tobacco tax, liquor tax, highway toll, income tax, property tax(this one to punish the wealthy)
What i$ their retirement plan?
Regroup behind "Economy, stupid!" charlatan, aka, Lee Myong-bak or somebody else, and retake the power.
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