The Democratic Party (DP; ) was a political party in South Korea. Formerly named Millennium Democratic Party (; MDP), it was renamed on 6 May 2005. After its dissolution, its members joined the
Uri Party
The Yeollin Uri Party (), generally abbreviated to Uri Party (), was the ruling social-liberal political party in South Korea from 2003 to 2007. A liberal party, it was created to support then-President Roh Moo-hyun. Chung Sye Kyun was the last ...
or the
successor Democratic Party.
History
In 2000, the party officially founded, after it merged of
National Congress for New Politics and
New People Party led by
Lee In-je and a number of conservative minded politicians joined it. In the
2000 Parliamentary election the party came second winning 115 seats.
Roh Moo-hyun
Roh Moo-hyun (, ; 1 September 1946 – 23 May 2009) was a South Korean politician and lawyer who served as the ninth president of South Korea from 2003 to 2008.
Roh's pre-presidential political career was focused on human rights advocacy for ...
was elected as president in 2002, but he subsequently left the party after he inaugurated as president and his supporters formed the
Uri Party
The Yeollin Uri Party (), generally abbreviated to Uri Party (), was the ruling social-liberal political party in South Korea from 2003 to 2007. A liberal party, it was created to support then-President Roh Moo-hyun. Chung Sye Kyun was the last ...
in 2003.
The MDP lost majority when Roh was
impeach
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In Euro ...
ed in March 2004 by the National Assembly for illegal electioneering and incompetence charges with support from the
Grand National Party
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, losing 53 seats to a total of only 9 seats in the
2004 parliamentary election. Roh Moo-hyun was later re-instated by the Constitutional Court, and served as president until the end of his term.
By June 2007, much of the party joined the
Uri Party
The Yeollin Uri Party (), generally abbreviated to Uri Party (), was the ruling social-liberal political party in South Korea from 2003 to 2007. A liberal party, it was created to support then-President Roh Moo-hyun. Chung Sye Kyun was the last ...
, while the New People faction merged the party with the
Central Reform United New Party to form a
new Democratic Party
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Presidential election primary
Candidates
This is a list of official pre-registered candidates that declared their
2007 presidential bid.
* Kim Yeong-hwan (김영환), former
Assembly member and also former Minister of Science and Technology of the
Kim Dae-jung Administration has been declared not to run its presidential primary on 31 August 2007
Kim Yeong-hwan announced not to run
, Yonhap, Retrieved on 31 August 2007
Election results
President
Legislature
Local
See also
* List of political parties in South Korea
This article lists political party, political parties in politics of South Korea, South Korea.
South Korea has a weakly institutionalized multi-party system, characterized by frequent changes in party arrangements. It has sometimes been described ...
* Centrist reformism
* Politics of South Korea
The politics of South Korea take place in the framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the president is the head of state, and of a multi-party system. To ensure a separation of powers, the government of th ...
* Elections in South Korea
* Liberalism in South Korea
This article gives an overview of liberalism and its related history in South Korea. It is limited to liberal parties with substantial support and representation in the National Assembly.
Historically, liberalism in South Korea emerged as an ...
Notes
References
External links
Democratic Party
official site
{{Democratic Party (South Korea, 2005)
Democratic parties in South Korea
Defunct liberal political parties
Conservative liberal parties
Neoliberal parties
Defunct political parties in South Korea
Political parties established in 2000
Political parties disestablished in 2008
Kim Dae-jung
Roh Moo-hyun