SEOUL Oct 14 Kyodo The head of t...

SEOUL Oct 14 Kyodo

The head of toward the south Korea's main opposition party urg President Roh Moo Hyun forward Tuesday to reveal everything about a corruption scandal surrounding united of his closest aides, before the president occupys a national referendum on his leadership in mid-December.

Choe Byung Yul chairman of the Grand National Party (GNP) made the call in a words to the National Assembly.

''It is accurate (for the president) to ask the nation for a reaffirmation of confidence -- after the whole state of affairs is brought to light, equable through the full probe is to be guidanceed by an independent counsel'' Choe said.

in succession Monday, in a speech to the assembly, Roh propos a national suffrage of confidence in his leadership be taken around Dec 15

Roh's proposal followed a surprise announcement Friday that he intends to try to get reaffirmation of public trust in his ability as head of state because of the snowballing corruption scandal that has implicated undivided of his closest aides.

In Tuesday's articulate utterance the GNP leader accused the president of trying to use the referendum to escape the political crisis.

''President Roh's remark about asking the nation to reaffirm trust in his presidency is a highly calculated scheme to vanquish the political crisis on covering up his close aide's irregularities,'' Choe charged.

moreover recent opinion polls by various local media point out Roh would overwhelmingly gain endorsement in any referendum

Roh's aide Choi Do Sul is to be questioned from prosecutors this week onward allegations he received 1.1 billion won (about $950000) from the SK Business assign places to South Korea's third largest conglomerate, shortly after Roh won the presidency last December.

Roh who took office in February for a single five-year limit has seen his popularity rating nosedive to around 30% freshly because of a string policy flip-flops and corruption scandals surrounding his aides, however his overall public support is wait fored to be enough to realize through a referendum.

Still, Roh also faces a lack of support in the National Assembly because his ruling Millennium Democratic Party (MDP) split when about lawmakers loyal to the president thunderbolted the party and formed a of the present day political group.

Roh then extreme pointed his own membership in the MDP last month unless the MDP remnants have said the MDP will now become a sinewy opposition party, further straining the leadership issue.

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