Democratic Party (South Korea, 2007)

The Democratic Party was a brief political party of South Korea found after the dissolution of the Democratic Party (2000).^[1]

History

On 27 June 2007 the Democratic Party (2000) dissolved and formed the Democratic Party (2007).

In-je was elected the party's Presidential candidate by the delegates on 14 October 2007 and the party changed it name to Centrist Reformists Democratic Party but received poor results in the election on December 19: He obtained only 0.7% of the vote

On 17 February 2008 the party merged with the United New Democratic Party to form the United Democratic Party.

Election results

Presidential elections

Election	Candidate	Total votes	Share of votes	Outcome	Party Name
2007	Lee In-je	160,708	0.7%	Lost N	Centrist Reformists Democratic Party

See also

• List of political parties in South Korea
• Politics of South Korea
• Elections in South Korea
• Liberalism in South Korea
• Liberalism
• Contributions to liberal theory
• Liberalism worldwide
• List of liberal parties
• Liberal democracy

References

Political parties in South Korea
Numbers in brackets indicate numbers of seats in the National Assembly
In National Assembly	Parliamentary group Saenuri (129) Democratic (121) People's (38) Non-parliamentary group Justice (6)
In Local Assemblies	Labor
Politics of South Korea List of ruling political parties by country Politics portal