The Platform Party () was a political party and an electoral alliance under the Democratic Party in South Korea formed in 2020 in order to run for party-list proportional representation in

2020 South Korean legislative election Legislative elections were held in South Korea on 15 April 2020. All 300 members of the National Assembly were elected, 253 from first-past-the-post constituencies and 47 from proportional party lists. They were the first elections held under a ...

History

The party was originally established by

Woo Hee-jong Woo Hee-jong (Korean: 우희종, born 21 January 1958) is a South Korean educator and politician. He has been a professor of veterinary science at Seoul National University since 1992. He was one of the co-Presidents of the Platform Party, alon ...

and

Choi Bae-geun Choi Bae-geun (Korean language, Korean: 최배근, born 12 April 1959) is a South Korean economist, educator and politician who served as the President of the Platform Party, along with Woo Hee-jong. Career He studied economics at Konkuk Univ ...

as For the Citizens ( ko, 시민을위하여) on 2 March 2020, while condemning the United Future Party for forming its satellite party, the Future Korea Party, in order to obtain compensatory seats after the passage of a new electoral law. It held its founding congress on 8 March and elected Woo and Choi as its co-Presidents. For the upcoming general election, the party signed a cooperation agreement with the ruling Democratic Party of Korea, as well as the other minor parties such as the Basic Income Party,

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and the

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. The next day, it changed its name to the current one. Nearly 75% of members of the

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agreed to join the Democrat-led For the Citizens electoral alliance. However, they quickly left as soon as they joined. The Green Party left the electoral alliance after the Democratic Party's Secretary-General Yoon Ho-joong made sexist and transphobic remarks about sexual minorities. Two of the five National Assembly candidates for the Green Party Korea belong to the

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. On 25 March, the Democratic Party confirmed that they would send 7 MPs to this party. Following the 2020 elections, a process was launched to merge or absorb the Platform Party back into the Democratic Party of Korea by 15 May 2020, as its original task of obtaining new compensatory proportional seats in the election was complete. On 13 May, the party declared its merge into the Democratic Party.

Ideology

The party is described as "pro- Moon Jae-in" and/or "pro- Cho Kuk", supporting Cho Kuk as the Minister of Justice. During the cooperation agreement, several left-of-centre parties including the Minjung Party refused to join as they did not want to join an electoral alliance led by pro-Moon figures. The party's position towards same-sex marriage was not clear, as the Democratic Party did not want to include explicitly pro-LGBT parties in their alliance.

Election results

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References

External links

Official website
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