It sort of reminds me of Dei Fledermaus with Orlovsky and this grand party.
The main opposition party, the Grand National Party, has vowed to oppose Mr. Kim's choice of prime minister, Kim Jong-pil, who belongs to the president-elect's electoral allies, the United Liberal Democrats.
After all, Kim Young Sam headed the New Korea Party, once the main ruling party until it morphed into the Grand National Party (GNP), which Lee represented in the 1997 election.
It is time for the Republican Party to change its moniker from the Grand Old Party (GOP) to the Fixing-the-Unfixable Party (FUP).
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If Mr Chung's Uri Party performs poorly at the polls against the Grand National Party, South Korea's elders could prove that they remain a force to be reckoned with.
The move could have helped Kim's party win some seats in populous southeastern Korea, stronghold of the opposition Grand National Party.
An hour later, it is the opposition Grand National Party's turn to hit back.
The conservative Grand National Party draws much of its support from the country's older voters.
So the Grand Old Party is betting on this anti-government wave restoring it to power in 2012.
Continuous infighting among the factions of the ruling Grand National Party does nothing to boost its popularity.
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Yet there is little love in the village for India's grand old party.
That is because the president's reforms are far too superficial, says the Grand National Party's leader, Lee Hoi Chang.
NCNP's power-base, which is the Cholla region in the south-west, into the Grand National Party's stronghold in the south-east.
The soon-to-be-ex-president's Grand National Party is now in disarray as the harsh reality of life in opposition sinks in.
It might happen sooner: on April 28th five members of the Grand National Party defected to Mr Kim's party.
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"Lee Hoi Chang, the leader of the Grand National Party, is claiming that a military threat from North Korea exists, " says Kim.
Mr Kim blames the opposition Grand National Party, which holds a majority in the assembly, for slowing down the pace of reform.
There, President Lee Myung-bak's Grand National Party is desperately attempting to force ratification of the FTA with America through the National Assembly.
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On top of that, the opposition Grand National Party refuses to co-operate.
He made plans for a grand leaving party, and then cancelled it.
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He will also need the help of the Grand National Party, which holds a majority of seats in the National Assembly, to pass legislation.
By the same token, the odds have improved for Yasuo Fukuda, a grand old party man who belongs to the same faction as Mr Abe.
The first is that however you tart it up, a message of broad continuity makes a nonsense of the Grand Old Party's shrill disparagement of the incumbent president's foreign policy.
Considering that women make up more than half of the electorate and more than half the voters, it is amazing that the Republicans have taken a path toward really being the Grand OLD Party.
He has the support of the three main daily newspapers and his Grand National Party wants to up the stakes by making it a crime to post on the internet disinformation that incites illegal demonstrations.
Now the opposition Grand National Party has moved on to the attack, criticising the president for failing to link the repatriation of the North's agents to the release of more than 300 South Koreans being held in the North.
First up, the "Grand New Party" is the name of a book by a couple of 20-something Republicans who say they have an idea or two about how and what their party of choice should be doing to woo new members.
They have boycotted parliamentary committee meetings to protest against a bill to ratify a free-trade agreement with America, and have disrupted the National Assembly by leaving their seats to heckle and scuffle with members of Mr Lee's Grand National Party (GNP).
Now it looks like his successor, to be elected Dec. 19, will need to continue waiting out this ill wind in the U.S. If Lee Myung-Bak of the opposition Grand National Party maintains his early lead, the mantle will fall to him.
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