National Congress for New Politics

National Congress for New Politics
Hangul	새정치국민회의
Hanja	새政治國民會議
Revised Romanization	Saejeongchi Gungminhoeui
McCune–Reischauer	Saechŏngch'i Gungminhoeŭi

National Congress for New Politics

새정치국민회의
National Congress for New Politics 새정치국민회의
Leader	Kim Dae-jung
Founded	5 September 1995
Dissolved	20 January 2000
Merger of	Democratic Party (1991)
Merged into	Millennium Democratic Party
Headquarters	25-4, Yeouido-dong, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul
Ideology	Liberalism; Social conservatism; Sunshine Policy
Political position	Centre
National affiliation	Alliance of DJP
Colours	Green, yellow (informally)
	Politics of South Korea; Political parties; Elections;

The National Congress for New Politics was a political party of South Korea from 1995 to 2000. The party later merged with the New People Party forming the Millennium Democratic Party (MDP; 새천년민주당; Saecheonnyeon Minjudang)

History[]

The party was formed in 1995 as the National Congress for New Politics (새정치국민회의; Saejeongchi Gungminhoeu) after Kim Dae-jung returned to active politics following his retirement in 1992. The majority of the party's early supporters were former members of the opposition Democratic Party, formed in 1991.

In the 1996 Parliamentary election the party managed to come a strong second, winning 79 seats. Later Kim's Democratic Party merged to the party. In the 1997 Presidential election, the party formed Alliance of DJP along with Alliance of Liberal Democrats, and Kim won the Presidency with 40% of the vote.

Dozens of members of the party were killed in the crash of Korean Air Flight 801 in August 1997.

In 2000, the party officially changed its name to the MDP, after it merged with the smaller New People Party led by and a number of conservative politicians.

Presidential election primary[]

Candidates[]

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

Name	Occupation	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(장 상)	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 August 31, 2007^[1]

Election results[]

Presidential elections[]

Election	Candidate		Total votes	Share of votes	Outcome
1997	Kim Dae-jung		10,326,275	40.3%	Elected Y

Legislative elections[]

Election	Total seats won	Total votes	Share of votes	Outcome of election	Status	Election leader
1996	79 / 299	4,971,961	25.3%	14 seats; Coalition (NCNP-ULD-Democrats)	Opposition	Kim Dae-jung

Local elections[]

Election	Metropolitan mayor/Governor	Provincial legislature	Municipal mayor	Municipal legislature
	6 / 16	271 / 616	84 / 232

References[]

^ Kim Yeong-hwan announced not to run Archived 2008-01-04 at the Wayback Machine, Yonhap, Retrieved on August 31, 2007

[1] Kim Yeong-hwan announced not to run Archived 2008-01-04 at the Wayback Machine, Yonhap, Retrieved on August 31, 2007

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Leaders (acting)	Kim Dae-jung
Presidential candidates Presidents	Kim Dae-jung (1997)
Preceding parties	Democratic Party (1991-1995)
Succeeding parties	Millennium Democratic Party / Democratic Party (2000–2007)
Related articles	Liberalism in South Korea
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