A sorry legacy
President Kim Dae-jung's party is collapsing around him
ELEVEN MPs left South Korea's governing Millennium Democratic Party (MDP) on November 4th. Others were expected to quit later in the week. The number abandoning the sinking ship may total more than 20. The party has never had a majority in the National Assembly, governing as the leader of a coalition. Since the defections, it now holds fewer than 100 seats in the 272-member parliament.
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “A sorry legacy”
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