Jayu hanguk party
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자유 한국당 Jayu-hanguk-dang Freedom Party of Korea |
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| Party leader | In Myung-jin ( 인명진 ) |
| Secretary General | Bak Maeng-woo ( 박맹우 ) |
| founding | November 21, 1997 |
| Headquarters | Yeongdeungpo-gu , Seoul |
| Alignment | conservatism |
| Colours) | red |
| National Assembly |
112/300 |
| Governors |
2/17 |
| International connections | International Democratic Union |
| Website | www.libertykoreaparty.kr |
| Jayu hanguk party | |
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| Korean alphabet : | 자유 한국당 |
| Hanja : | 自由 韓國 黨 |
| Revised Romanization : | Jayu-hanguk-dang |
| McCune-Reischauer : | Chayu-hankuk-tang |
| Saenuri party | |
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| Korean alphabet : | 새누리 당 |
| Hanja : | 새누리 黨 |
| Revised Romanization : | Sae-nuri-dang |
| McCune-Reischauer : | Sae-nuri-tang |
| Hannara party | |
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| Korean alphabet : | 한나라당 |
| Hanja : | 한나라 黨 |
| Revised Romanization : | Hannara-dang |
| McCune-Reischauer : | Hannara-tang |
The Jayu-hanguk party ( Korean : 자유 한국당 , transliteration : Jayu-hanguk-dang , German : Freedom Party of Korea , English : Liberty Korea Party ) is a conservative party in South Korea .
history
The party emerged in 1997 from the merger of various right-wing parties . Until February 2012 it was known under the name Hannara-dang ( 한나라당 , German: Great National Party ) and then carried the name Saenuri-dang ( 새누리 당 , German: Saenuri Party , seldom also called New World Party ) until February 2017 .
Its forerunners include the Democratic Republican Party of the dictatorial ruling Park Chung-hee ( 박정희 ), the Democratic Justice Party that led President Chun Doo-hwan ( 전두환 ), who was responsible for the Gwangju massacre , and Roh Tae-woo ( 노태우 ) , who was the first democratically elected president after the dictatorship, served, as well as the New Korea Party of then President Kim Young-sam ( 김영삼 ).
In the 2004 general election , the Saenuri Party won 35.8% of the vote and 121 of the 299 seats in the National Assembly, making it the strongest force in opposition to President Roh Moo-hyun ( 노무현 ) and his liberal Yeollin-uri party ( 열린 우리당 , Yeollin-uri-dang, Our Open Party). In the presidential election on December 19, 2007 , Lee Myung-bak ( 이명박 ) stood for the Hannara Party and won, making the party the first time in ten years to move back into the Blue House .
In the general election on April 9, 2008, which was seen as a test of mood for President Lee, the Grand National Party won the most votes with a low turnout. It replaced the liberal United Democratic Party , which emerged from the Yeollin-uri party, as the strongest faction and won an absolute majority in parliament with 153 out of 299 seats. In the run-up to the South Korean parliamentary elections in 2012, the Grand National Party was renamed the Saenuri Party in February 2012.
In the general election in South Korea in 2012 , the ruling Saenuri party won 152 out of 300 seats. Party leader Park Geun-hye ( 박근혜 ) clearly distanced herself from the policies of her party friend, President Lee Myung-bak. In the presidential election in December 2012, Park Geun-hye won against her competitor Moon Jae-in ( 문재인 ) from the Minju-tonghap party ( 민주 통합 당 , Minju-tonghap-dang, United Democratic Party).
In the 2016 parliamentary elections , the Saenuri party missed an absolute majority and, with 122 parliamentary seats, ended up just behind the Deobureo-minju party , which won 123 seats. By June 23, 2016, seven non-party members of the Saenuri Party joined, while the Minju Party lost one member, so that the Saenuri Party was able to regain a majority in the National Assembly with 129 seats.
In the wake of the Park Geun-hye and Choi Soon-sil political affair , several members of the National Assembly resigned from the Saenuri party and founded the Bareun party on January 24, 2017 . With 32 seats in the National Assembly, they formed the fourth largest force; the Saenuri party had only 95 seats at that time and thus lost the majority against the Minju party with 121 seats. On January 22, the interim chairman In Myung-jin announced that the party intends to distance itself from President Park by changing the party name. On February 13, the party officially renamed itself Jayu-hanguk Party.
Goals of the Saenuri Party
To a large extent, the Saenuri party stood for a free market economy , a “ lean state ”, free trade , low taxes and independent entrepreneurship . She campaigned for a close alliance with the US and the West and criticized human rights violations in North Korea particularly sharply . It relied on the traditionally conservative power elite of South Korea and on the rural population. Their stronghold was the Gyeongsang-do region .
The Jayu-hanguk party is a member of the International Democratic Union .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Carsten Germis: ruling party surprisingly strong . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . Frankfurt April 11, 2012 ( online [accessed May 8, 2016]).
- ↑ Takeover of power in South Korea . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . Frankfurt December 19, 2007 ( online [accessed May 8, 2016]).
- ↑ Economic democratization . KBS World Radio , February 5, 2012, accessed May 8, 2016 .
- ^ Election in South Korea: Dictator daughter beats human rights activists. Spiegel Online, December 19, 2012, accessed May 8, 2016 .
- ^ Bareun Party officially launched after splitting from Saenuri. In: The Korea Herald . January 24, 2017, accessed February 21, 2017 .
- ^ South Korea ruling party tries to distance itself from impeached president with a name change. In: South China Morning Post . January 23, 2013, accessed February 21, 2017 .
- ↑ Saenuri Party changes its name to the Freedom Party of Korea. In: KBSWorld . February 14, 2017, accessed February 21, 2017 .