Democratic Party (South Korea, 2000)

Template:Template other Template:Infobox Korean name/auto Template:Liberalism in South Korea The Democratic Party (DP; Template:Korean/auto) was a political party in South Korea. Formerly named Millennium Democratic Party (Korean: ; Hanja: ; RR: Template:TransliterationTemplate:Category handler; MDP), it was renamed on 6 May 2005. After its dissolution, its members joined the Uri Party 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 was elected as president in 2002, but he subsequently left the party after he inaugurated as president and his supporters formed the Uri Party in 2003.

The MDP lost majority when Roh was impeached in March 2004 by the National Assembly for illegal electioneering and incompetence charges with support from the Grand National Party, 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, while the New People faction merged the party with the Central Reform United New Party to form a new Democratic Party.

Presidential election primary

Candidates

This is a list of official pre-registered candidates that declared their 2007 presidential bid.

Name	Occupation	Results	Notes
Cho Sun-hyeong (조순형)	Member for Seongbuk-gu-eul		led the impeachment of Roh Moo-hyun in 2004
Kim Min-seok (김민석)	Former Assembly member		Former Seoul mayoral candidate in 2002 local body election(when Lee Myung Bak was elected that position)
Lee In-je (이인제)	Member for Nonsan, Geumsan and Gyeryung		Presidential candidate of election 1997
Shin Guk-hwan (신국환)	Member for Munkyeong and Yecheon		Former Minister of Commerce, Industry and Energy of Roh's Administration
Jang Sang (장상)	Former leader of Democratic party		Former president of Ewha Womans University

• 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

Election results

President

Election	Candidate	Votes	%	Result
2002	Roh Moo-hyun	12,014,277	48.9	Elected

Legislature

Election	Leader	Constituency				Party list				Seats		Position	Status
		Votes	%	Seats	+/-	Votes	%	Seats	+/-	No.	+/–
2000	Kim Dae-jung	6,780,625	35.87	Template:Composition bar	new			Template:Composition bar	new	Template:Composition bar	new	2nd	Government
2004	Cho Soon-hyung	1,698,368	7.96	Template:Composition bar	Decrease 91	1,510,178	7.09	Template:Composition bar	Decrease 15	Template:Composition bar	Decrease 106	4th	Opposition

Local

Election	Metropolitan mayor/Governor	Provincial legislature	Municipal mayor	Municipal legislature
2002	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar
2006	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar

See also

• List of political parties in South Korea
• Centrist reformism
• Politics of South Korea
• Elections in South Korea
• Liberalism in South Korea

External links

• Democratic Party official site