Word: uris
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Uri Party attracts huge support, that might be viewed by the court as a public vote on the impeachment. The party is riding high in opinion polls, although it was recently forced to abandon its offices after the media revealed that the rent was partly being paid with illegal campaign donations. Its new headquarters: a dingy warehouse. Eager to halt its slide in the polls, the opposition Grand National Party last week elected a new chairperson: Park Geun Hye, popular daughter of assassinated dictator Park Chung Hee. It has also moved its workers to humble digs: a vacant lot, where...
...arguments over Roh's ouster. His lawyers intend to argue that the impeachment was railroaded through the National Assembly and should be thrown out on procedural grounds. If the court doesn't bite, they plan to argue that the first charge against Roh?that he voiced support for the Uri Party in the upcoming National Assembly election, even though he's required to be neutral as President?was trivial, and that there is no basis in constitutional law for the other two charges of economic mismanagement and corruption among his aides...
...tried?and for which he is already being punished?are some otherwise innocuous comments about the upcoming April 15 National Assembly election. Roh, who had renounced his membership of the ruling Millennium Democratic Party last fall, let it be known that he hoped candidates from the Uri Party would do well, and that he thought he might eventually join that organization. Lawmakers were shocked?shocked!?that the President would dare sully the nation's pristine electoral process through such nefarious interference. Their reading of the law held Roh's words to be a violation of election rules preventing the President...
...March ? Opposition lawmakers submit the country's first-ever presidential impeachment motion, after Roh is found to have violated election laws by urging public support for the Uri Party in the upcoming election. South Korean law forbids the President from getting involved in general elections...
...September ? Political infighting results in Roh quitting the MDP. Thirty-seven of his supporters also defect, and form the Uri Party...