The Platform Party (), also known as Citizen's Party of Korea, was an

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and

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in South Korea formed in order to run for

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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 ...

History

The party was originally established by Woo Hee-jong and Choi Bae-geun as For the Citizens () 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

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, as well as the other minor parties such as the

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, Transition Korea, Let's Go! — Environmental Party and the Let's Go! — Party for Peace and Human Rights. The next day, it changed its name to the current one. Nearly 75% of members of the Green Party Korea 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

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remarks about sexual minorities. Two of the five

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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 Moon Jae-in (, ; born January 24, 1953) is a South Korean politician and former lawyer who served as the 12th president of South Korea from 2017 to 2022. Before his presidency, he served as the senior secretary for civil affairs and the Chief ...

" and/or "pro-

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", supporting

as the

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. During the cooperation agreement, several left-of-centre parties including the

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refused to join as they did not want to join an electoral alliance led by pro-Moon figures. The party's position towards

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was not clear, as the Democratic Party did not want to include explicitly pro-LGBT parties in their alliance.

Election results

Notes

References

External links

Official website
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