Bernama today reported according to South Korean Yonhap News Agency, two pro-government political heavyweights joined hand to launch a splinter party ahead of the impending General Elections.
"The 50-year-old democracy and peace force and the civic group community are now born again as one force that will create the new future of Korea," Oh Chung-il said in the inauguration ceremony at Seoul's Olympic Park on Sunday.
Sohn Hak-kyu, a former Gyeonggi Province governor who defected from the major opposition Grand National Party (GNP), and Chung Dong-young, a former unification minister and chairman of the pro-government Uri Party, are the two pillars of the new party that also encompasses some left-leaning civic leaders.
The United New Democratic Party, launched on Sunday, consists of 85 lawmakers, 80 of them defectors from the pro-government Uri Party. The rest came from the minor opposition Democratic Party.
The combined force gave its helm to a Christian pastor and long-time democracy activist, Oh Chung-il.
Will it happen here? Possibility?
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