Bareun party

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바른 정당
Bareun-jeongdang
Right Party
Logo of the BP
Emergence December 27, 2016
founding January 24, 2017
fusion February 13, 2018
(incorporated into: Bareun mirae party )
Headquarters Seoul , Yeongdeungpo-gu
Alignment Conservative , center-right
Colours) Sky blue
Website http://bareun.party/
Korean spelling
Korean alphabet : 바른 정당
Revised Romanization : bareun-jeongdang
McCune-Reischauer : parŭn-chŏngdang

The Bareun party ( Korean : 바른 정당 , transliteration : Bareun-jeongdang , in German : right party ) was a conservative opposition party in South Korea that split off from the Saenuri party on December 27, 2016 and ran until January 8 2017 the name New Conservative Party ( Korean : 개혁 보수 신당 , transliteration: Gaehyeok-bosu-sindang ). The party was officially founded on January 24, 2017. On February 13, 2018, it merged with the Gungminui party to form the Bareun mirae party .

history

Emergence

The founding of the Bareun party is closely related to the political affair surrounding Park Geun-hye and Choi Soon-sil . After the rise in protests against President Park Geun-hye (Saenuri Party) in October and November 2016 , member of the National Assembly Kim Yong-tae and the governor of Gyeonggi Province Nam Kyung-pil were the first to step out of the Saenuri on November 22 Party to distance themselves from Park.

At the end of November 2016, the opposition proposed the impeachment of Parks in the National Assembly. At that time the Saenuri Party held 128 seats in the National Assembly, the opposition together with the non-party members 172 seats. In order to initiate impeachment proceedings against Park, 200 of the 300 votes were required, so at least 28 members of the Saenuri party had to vote for the decision. On December 9, 234 MPs voted for impeachment.

On December 16, Jung Woo-taek was elected Saenuri Party leader, a loyal supporter of Park. On December 27th, 29 MPs from the Saenuri Party announced they were leaving to oppose Park and the pro-Park party leadership. They formed a political alliance which they temporarily called the New Conservative Party.

The name change to Bareun Party took place on January 8, 2017. On January 15th the logo and the party color sky blue were announced. Blue had been the color of the conservative predecessor parties for more than 30 years before the Hannara party renamed itself the Saenuri party in 2012 and changed the party color to red. Choung Byoung-gug was unanimously elected as the first party chairman on January 23 , one day before the party was officially founded and became the fourth largest force in the National Assembly with 32 seats.

2017 presidential election

On January 25, Gyeonggi Province Governor Nam Kyung-pil announced his presidential candidacy, followed a day later by Yoo Seong-min , a member of the National Assembly. However, the most promising candidate was Ban Ki-moon , who had been the eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations until December 31, 2016 . On February 1, Ban announced that he would not run for President of South Korea. Until then, the Bareun party regarded Ban as a de facto candidate. A candidacy had already been rejected by Kim Moo-sung , at that time still a member of the Saenuri Party, on November 24, 2016, and the former mayor of Seoul Oh Se-hoon on January 13, 2017.

On March 17, registration for the primary election of the Bareun Party's presidential candidate ended, with Nam Kyung-pil and Yoo Seong-min remaining the only candidates. On March 28, Yoo Seong-min was elected candidate with 62.9%. In the presidential elections on May 9, he achieved the fourth-best result with 2,208,771 votes (6.8%), behind Moon Jae-in (13,423,800 votes, 41.1%), Hong Jun-pyo (7,852,849 votes) , 24.0%) and Ahn Cheol-soo (6,998,342 votes, 21.4%).

Loss of membership and dissolution

On April 28, 20 out of 33 members of the Bareun Party in the National Assembly signed a declaration that an alliance of three presidential candidates Yoo Seong-min (Bareun Party), Hong Joon-pyo (Jayu-hanguk Party) and Ahn Cheol- soo (Gungminui party) and an agreement on a common candidate to stop Moon Jae-in (Deobureo minju party), who was ahead in the polls. On the same day, the National Assembly MP Lee Eun-jae switched to the Jayu-hanguk party. After Yoo rejected a joint candidate from the three parties, 13 of the 32 Bareun members in the National Assembly announced they were leaving the party to support their candidate Hong, with the result that the remaining 19 MPs lost their parliamentary group status in the National Assembly, but revoked them on same day Hwang Young-cheul resigned from the party.

Nine other members of the National Assembly resigned from the party on November 8, 2017 and joined the Jayu-hanguk party to form a united conservative bloc in the National Assembly, saying that the Bareun party had failed as a conservative alternative to offer to the Jayu-hanguk party. They were followed on November 11, 2017 by the previous party leader in the National Assembly and acting party chairman Joo Ho-young .

In December 2017, merger talks between the Bareun Party and the Gungminui Party began. Thereafter, on January 16, 2018, Park In-sook joined the Jayu-hanguk party. Within the Gungminui party, 15 members of the National Assembly left the party between February 1 and 5 and formed the Minju-peyonghwa party on February 6 , before the Bareun and Gungminui parties joined the Bareun-mirae on February 13 . Party merged. With 30 members, it was the third largest parliamentary group in the National Assembly at the time it was formed.

Party leadership

Party leader

# Party leader Period
1 Choung Byoung-gug January 23, 2017 to March 10, 2017
Joo Ho-young (acting) March 10, 2017 to June 26, 2017
2 Lee Hye-hoon June 26, 2017 to September 7, 2017
Joo Ho-young (acting) September 7, 2017 to November 13, 2017
3 Yoo Seong-min November 13, 2017 to February 13, 2018

Choung Byoung-gug was unanimously elected as the first party chairman on January 23. Choung saw it as his job to lead the party through Parks' impeachment and resigned as party leader on March 10, 2017 after Park was removed from office as President of South Korea by the Constitutional Court . From this point on, Joo Ho-young provisionally took over the party chairmanship, in addition to his party chairmanship in the National Assembly.

At the party conference on June 26, 2017, the National Assembly MP Lee Hye-hoon was elected as the new party leader with 36.9% of the vote and stood up against the three other candidates Ha Tae-keung (33.1%), Jeong Woon-chun (17.6%) and Kim Young-woo (12.5%). Lee took the position of a strong independent party and strictly opposed an alliance with the Jayu-hanguk party in the upcoming local elections in 2018 . In the wake of a bribery affair accused of accepting around 60 million won (around 46,000 euros) in cash and gifts from a businesswoman in the run-up to the 2016 general election , Lee resigned from her position as party leader on September 7. Again the party leader in the National Assembly, Joo Ho-young, took over provisional chairmanship.

Former presidential candidate Yoo Seong-min took over the chairmanship of the party on November 13, 2017 with 56.6% of the vote. Other candidates were the members of the National Assembly Ha Tae-keung (24.5%), Jeong Woon-chun (10.3%) and Park In-sook (4.7%).

Party leader in the National Assembly

( Colloquially also called the parliamentary group chairman , whereby 20 members are required for a parliamentary group or a group of factions in the National Assembly.)

# Party leader Period
1 Joo Ho-young December 27, 2016 to November 13, 2017
Kim Se-yeon (acting) November 13, 2017 to December 22, 2017
2 Oh Shin-hwan December 22, 2017 to February 13, 2018

With the formation of the 29 MPs as a political alliance on December 27, 2016, this was able to begin its work as a parliamentary group in the National Assembly, even before the party was officially founded. Joo Ho-young was appointed as the first leader. Joo announced on November 6, 2017 that he would be leaving the party after the November 13th convention to elect a new party leader; at the time he was both acting party chairman and party leader in the National Assembly. On November 13, 2017, the former General Secretary Kim Se-yeon took over the party leadership in the National Assembly. On December 22, 2017, Oh Shin-hwan was elected party leader in the National Assembly.

Election results

Presidential election

year choice candidate Be right (%) Result
2017 19th presidential election Yoo Seong-min 2,208,771 (6.76%) not chosen (4.)

Parliamentary elections

year choice Constituency candidate Be right (%) Result
2017 By-election to the 20th National Assembly Gyeongsangbuk-do Sangju-si, Gunwi-gun, Uiseong-gun, Cheongsong-gun Kim Jin-wook 5,061 (5.22%) not chosen (4.)

Web links

  • Homepage . 바른 정당. Archived from the original onFebruary 12, 2018; Retrieved April 29, 2017(Korean, Party Official Website).

Individual evidence

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