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People Party
국민의당
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| Leader | Ahn Cheol-soo |
| Floor Leader | Kwon Eun-hee |
| Secretary-General | Choi Yeon-sook |
| Chair of the Policy Planning Committee | Hong Sung-pil |
| Registered | 23 February 2020[1] |
| Dissolved | 18 April 2022[2] |
| Split from | Bareunmirae Party |
| Merged into | People Power |
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| Political position | Centre[7]tocentre-right[8][9][10] |
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| Slogan | A smaller but larger party, Shared party, Innovation party![12] |
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| Revised Romanization | Gungminuidang |
| McCune–Reischauer | Kungminŭidang |
The People Party (Korean: 국민의당; lit. Party of Nationals; PP) was a political party in South Korea. The party was founded by Ahn Cheol-soo in February 2020, after leaving the Bareunmirae Party.[13] It has the same name as the People Party, which was also founded by Ahn and existed from 2016 to 2018.
In the 2020 South Korean legislative election, the party won three representatives for the National Assembly.
The People Party dissolved in April 2022 after merging with the conservative People Power Party.[2]
The party was the successor of the liberal People Party in 2018, but had become more economically liberal overall. People Party is described as a liberal[3] and conservative[4] party.[14]
People Party had somewhat more moderate liberal social positions than the previous old People Party, but it is not free from social conservatism.[15][16] Ahn Cheol-soo, a key figure of the party, has expressed a negative stance on Seoul's LGBT Pride parade event, called "kwieo-chukje" (Korean: 퀴어 축제; Hanja: 퀴어 祝祭; lit. Queer Festival) in Gwanghwamun, Seoul.[17] However, PP did not consistently stress a social conservative stance because it wished to present an image of "alternative politics," and to that end also criticized the conservative PPP in addition to the left-liberal DPK, which are the two "huge political parties" (Korean: 거대 양당; Hanja: 巨大兩黨). Ahn had criticized both Yoon Seok-youl of the PPP as well as Lee Jae-myung of the DPK for putting too much emphasis on men in their 20s and promoting misogyny.[18]
On 18 April 2022, party leader Ahn Cheol-soo agreed with a merger with the mainstream conservative People Power Party. This came after Ahn withdrew from the March 2022 Presidential Election in favor of endorsing Yoon Seok-youl for President. Yoon won the election by a narrow margin of 0.7%.[2]
Parliamentary leader for the People Party, Kwon Eun-hee, rejected the merger idea. She stated "I cannot accept the idea of the merger when it only helps to entrench further the nation's political system, which is led primarily by the two major parties, thereby limiting the voices of minor parties." Kwon has requested a release from the Party and from the party unification plans so that she can keep her seat as an independent proportional representative lawmaker in the National Assembly.
| Election | Leader | Constituency | Party list | Seats | Position | Status | ||||
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| 2020 | Ahn Cheol-soo | 1,896,719 | 6.80 |
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Kim said he was not concerned with the name's similarity to the liberal People's Party.
Minor parties won just 12 seats — six for Sim Sang-jeung's progressive Justice Party, three for Ahn Cheol-soo's revived and now center-right People's Party, and three for the splinter liberal Open Democratic Party.
Cooperative moves gained traction since the right-wing United Future Party, the largest opposition party with 103 lawmakers, and center-right People's Party with three lawmakers launched a joint study program called the People's Future Forum in early June, where party leaders and lawmakers share and discuss the future course of their policy directions.
It is also probable that he will seek to form a coalition with the moderate-conservative People's Party presidential candidate Ahn Cheol-soo.
안철수 국민의당 대표가 이재명 더불어민주당 대선후보와 국민의힘 대선주자인 윤석열 전 검찰총장, 홍준표 의원을 향해 "여성 비하 대선후보들의 번지르르한 여성 공약"이라며 "여성을 혐오하고 막말과 욕설로 여성을 무참히 짓밟는 후보들이 번지르르한 공약을 내놓는다고 해서, 여성의 안전과 인권을 지켜낼 수 있다고 믿기는 어렵다"고 주장했다.
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