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S KOREA PRES, RULING PARTY LEADER TO MEET OVER ELECTION DEFEAT.
SEOUL, May 1 Asia Pulse - South Korea President Lee Myung-bak will meet with the head of his ruling Grand National Party (GNP) next week to discuss the party's defeat in Assembly by-elections, a party official said Friday.
The ruling party lost in all five contested constituencies in the Wednesday election, a sign of public disapproval of the Lee government and the GNP. The party chairman Park Hee-tae had said the GNP will "humbly accept" the outcome as a "lashing" from the people.
Park, 70, is under pressure from inside the party to step down as party leader to claim responsibility for the election loss, but informed sources ...
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