Socialist Party (South Korea)
Socialist Party 사회당 社會黨 | |
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President | Ahn Hyo-sang |
Founded | 29 November 1998 |
Dissolved | 4 March 2012 |
Merged into | New Progressive Party |
Headquarters | 11F Nagyeong Building, 115-62 Gongdeok-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul |
Ideology | Social democracy[citation needed] |
Political position | Centre-left to left-wing |
Colours | Red, Black and Green |
Socialist Party | |
Hangul | 사회당 |
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Hanja | |
Revised Romanization | Sahoedang |
McCune–Reischauer | Sahoetang |
The Socialist Party (
On 19 February 2012, at its final Sixteenth Party Congress, the Socialist Party voted by 404 votes to 54 to merge with the New Progressive Party.[1] The party was formally dissolved on 4 March 2012.
History
The People's Victory 21 (
The Youth Progressive Party ran for election to the
The party changed its name to "Hope Socialist Party" (Korean: 희망사회당) in April 2006, and to "Korea Socialist Party" (Korean: 한국사회당) in October 2006 due to the Korean law forbidding the usage of a party name for four years when registration is canceled.
In the
Elections
On several occasions, the party ran candidates for president or parliament, for example Kim Yeong-gyu in the 2002 presidential election, but it never won any elections.
For the 2007 presidential election, Geum Min ran as the party's candidate for president. He proposed the idea of social republicanism, subsequently adopted as a component of the party's platform.
Election results
President
Election | Candidate | Votes | % | Result |
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2007 | Geum Min | 18,223 | 0.08 | Not elected |
Legislature
Election | Leader | Constituency | Party list | Seats | Position | Status | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Votes | % | Seats | +/- | Votes | % | Seats | +/- | No. | +/– | ||||
2004 | Geum Min | 8,004 | 0.04 | 0 / 243
|
new | 47,311 | 0.22 | 0 / 56
|
new | 0 / 299
|
new | 9th | Extra-parliamentary |
2008 | Ahn Hyo-sang | 35,496 | 0.21 | 0 / 54
|
0 / 299
|
11th | Extra-parliamentary |
See also
- List of political parties in South Korea
- Politics of South Korea
- Elections in South Korea
- Basic income
- Basic Income Party
- Socialism in South Korea
- Progressivism in South Korea
References
- ^ 사회당, 진보신당과의 합당을 위한 수임기관 설치 Archived 14 September 2012 at archive.today Socialist Party, 19 February 2012. Retrieved 8 March 2012.