[Editorial] Do We Have To Vote For The Party To Be “Separated?”

Do we have to vote for the party to be “separated?”

Myoung Kye-nam, one of the leading figures of the “People have a passion for Roh Moo-hyun (Rohsamo)” movement, which includes people such as Moon Sung-kuen, has suggested in his comments that the Open Uri Party might be separated after the general election. The remarks of those two people predicted a struggle for the future path of the Open Uri Party and that conflicts of interest would be indispensable after the general election.

Considering their position in the party as the political fellows of Roh Moo-hyun, those remarks are not to be ignored easily. Despite any poor explanation with moral justification, their remarks are just same as allowing the electorates to vote for the party, which is to be separated just after the general election.

“As popular support for the Open Uri Party has increased after the general election, many parasite and hangers-on people have grouped together,” remarked Myoung. In advance of this address, Moon had stated that “too many people with unreasonable temperament have been selected as Open Uri Party candidates for the upcoming election,” indicating that the party has become a hodgepodge. According to their remarks, people who lack personality and natural disposition are assembling in the Open Uri Party like a disorderly crowd. Without qualified personnel management, the party’s promise to champion “new politics” and “new party” will be an absolute mockery.

Above all things, I would like to ask the Open Uri Party about its identity. If only close associates of Moon and Myoung can be regarded as real party members, what is the precise target at which the Open Uri Party aims?

As their remarks have stirred a disturbance, Myoung and Moon resigned from the party yesterday. But the matter has not finished simply with their withdrawal from the party. They have disclosed that in spite of their position in the party, they would exert their best to the party, and their popularity, as close associates of President Roh, has not been defamed.

The Open Uri Party has to make it clear that how they regard their opinion of party separation and their identity as soon as possible. For the electorate, the status and position of the Open Uri Party on this matter is only confusing.