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Chief of main opposition's affiliated party resigns ahead of April elections

By Yonhap

Published : March 19, 2020 - 17:11

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The chief of the Future Korea Party (FKP) stepped down Thursday amid strife with the main opposition party over the selection of candidates for proportional representation (PR) seats.

The FKP was established in February as the satellite party of the main opposition United Future Party (UFP) specially to target PR slots in the April 15 parliamentary elections.

But tensions between the two parties heightened as only one person that the UFP had recruited from outside was included in a list of 20 candidates thought likely to be elected through PR.

FKP chairman Han Sun-kyo abruptly announced that he will resign from his post after some UFP members called him a "betrayer."

Condemning the UFP's leadership, including party chief Hwang Kyo-ahn, Han said that the main opposition party has blocked his aspirations for reform.

"Trivial people have deterred my vision to serve the party and the nation genuinely," Han said, calling the UFP a "corrupt" power.

The Liberty Korea Party, the predecessor of the UFP, pushed to create the FKP out of concerns that it may take fewer PR seats due to new election rules. (Yonhap)

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