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Parties struggling over next year's by-elections

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Kim Seon-dong, right, former secretary general of the main opposition People Power Party, speaks during a party meeting at the National Assembly in Seoul, in this Aug. 21 photo. Kim stepped down from the party post last week to run in the party primary for next April's Seoul mayoral election. On the left is PPP's emergency committee chief Kim Chong-in. Korea Times file
Kim Seon-dong, right, former secretary general of the main opposition People Power Party, speaks during a party meeting at the National Assembly in Seoul, in this Aug. 21 photo. Kim stepped down from the party post last week to run in the party primary for next April's Seoul mayoral election. On the left is PPP's emergency committee chief Kim Chong-in. Korea Times file

Main opposition party urged to hurry in finding new candidates

By Jung Da-min

Next April's by-elections have become a pressing matter in politics with the mayoral posts of the country's two biggest cities, Seoul and Busan, remaining vacant following the suicide of Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon in July and the resignation of Busan Mayor Oh Keo-don in April.

With less than six months left ahead of the by-elections, both the ruling Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) and the main opposition People Power Party (PPP) are having difficulties in finding the right candidates for the posts for different reasons.

As both former mayors belonged to the DPK and both faced sexual harassment allegations, the ruling party has been faced with a dilemma over whether or not to nominate candidates ? the party's own regulations state that it will not field a candidate for a by-election that came about due to a party member resigning over wrongdoings.
Jung Da-min damin.jung@koreatimes.co.kr


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