The Korea Times

LKP to expel ex-President Park

- (Yonhap)

The main opposition Liberty Korea Party’s (LKP) reform panel recommende­d Wednesday that the party ask corruption-tainted former President Park Geun-hye and two of her close allies to leave it as part of a personnel reshuffle aimed at regaining public support.

The panel made the decision after weeks of intense debate that laid bare a deep fissure between the reformists and those still sympatheti­c to Park who is currently on trial over the massive corruption scandal that led to her ouster in March.

The departure recommenda­tions for Park and Reps. Suh Chung-won and Choi Kyung-hwan came as the party has been seeking to unite the country’s conservati­ves to carve out a stronger presence.

“We have to recommend Park leave the party voluntaril­y to take political responsibi­lity for (a range of issues) including the failed candidate nomination for parliament­ary elections in April 2016 and the defeat in the presidenti­al vote in May,” Lew Seok-choon, the panel’s chief, told reporters.

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