[Editorial] Party-Government, Remove Unqualified Persons

The Supreme Council members of the ruling New Millennium Democratic Party have been engaged in the heated disputes on the declaration of the Party`s young caucus. The Supreme members debated, at a series of meeting on 27 and 28, whether the announcement of the declaration for the reformation demand was right, and whether the Party had to respond quickly to the demand. In the midst of the fuss, Supreme member Rep. Chung Dong-Young stamped out of the meeting.

According to the debates between the Supreme members, they have no big difference in the understanding of the current situation. Unveiled topics of the discussions are as follows: the failure of the human management, the declined support to the Party, the recovery of the support through a reformation, the proper collection of the public opinion, and so on. All the leaders of NMDP seem to agree on the current critical situation. Then it is curious as to why they have been focusing their discussion on such unimportant matters as the method of demand and the time to respond.

The demands of the young caucus and Rep. Chungs have concentrated on the urgency to settle the sentiment of people’s estrangement from the government and that there is no time to waste for the Party and the government to re-gain the people`s support.

It seems clear that, if they recognize the criticisms to the President and the plummeted support, the Party has no time to waste for considering the procedure and appearance in a leisurely manner. People have experienced that the estrangement of the public sentiment results in not only the failure of the government, but also will eventually leads to the economic difficulties.

Therefore, the declaration of the NMDP`s young caucus can not be blamed as a rash behavior or a heroism. They are the persons who deliver the voice of the people: the demand for the total reformation of the Party and the government, including the rationalization of the agreement process and the democratization of the Party, the elimination of `the non-official line` in the human management, and the exclusion of the unqualified officials in the government and the Party.

The names of `the non-official line` and `unqualified officials` seem to be recognized by the most members of the Party. President Kim Dae-Jung, who is the commander in chief and the president of the Party, has to resolve the problems by accepting the demands of the young caucus. The President must not lose this precious opportunity.