Platform Party

{{Infobox political party

| colorcode = {{party color|Platform Party}}

| native_name = 더불어시민당

| native_name_lang = ko

| logo = Logo of the Platform Party.svg

| abbreviation = PP

| founders = Woo Hee-jong
Choi Bae-geun

| founded = 8 March 2020

| registered = 16 March 2020

| dissolved = 13 May 2020

| headquarters = Gukhoe-daero, Yeouido-dong, Yeongdeungpo, Seoul

| successor = Democratic Alliance of Korea (de facto)

| membership_year = 2020

| ideology = Liberalism (Korean)

| national = {{ublist|class = nowrap

| Democratic Party

| Basic Income Party

| Transition Korea

}}

| colours = {{colour box|{{party color|Platform Party}}}} Blue

| website = {{URL|http://platformparty.kr/}}

| country = South Korea

}}

{{Infobox Korean name/auto

|hangul = ^더불어_시민당

|hanja = 더불어市民黨

|hanjaref={{efn|{{lang|zh-Hant|共同市民黨}}, {{lang|ja|共に市民党}} or other variants are translated names in Chinese and Japanese.}}

}}

The Platform Party ({{Korean|hangul=더불어시민당}}), also known as Citizen's Party of Korea,{{Cite web |url=http://www.thebriefing.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=722 |access-date=2024-04-13 |website=www.thebriefing.co.kr}} was an electoral alliance and political party in South Korea formed in order to run for party-list proportional representation in 2020 South Korean legislative election.

History

The party was originally established by Woo Hee-jong and Choi Bae-geun as For the Citizens ({{Korean|시민을위하여|labels=no}}) 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.{{cite news |date= 2 March 2020|script-title=ko:창당선언문|url= http://platformparty.kr/?page_id=23|access-date= 17 March 2020}} It held its founding congress on 8 March and elected Woo and Choi as its co-Presidents.{{cite news |date= 8 March 2020|script-title=ko:[세계타임즈TV] 시민을 위하여 플랫폼 정당 창당대회|url= http://m.thesegye.com/news/newsview.php?ncode=1065613256918735|access-date= 17 March 2020}}

For the upcoming general election, the party signed a cooperation agreement with the ruling Democratic Party of Korea, as well as the other minor parties such as the Basic Income Party, Transition Korea, Let's Go! — Environmental Party and the Let's Go! — Party for Peace and Human Rights.{{cite news |date= 17 March 2020|script-title=ko:[속보]민주, 비례연합당 '시민을위하여'에 합류|url= https://www.nocutnews.co.kr/news/5310305|access-date= 17 March 2020}}{{cite news |date= 17 March 2020|title= "'시민을위하여'와 연합"…'친 조국' 비례정당과 손잡은 민주당|url= https://www.hankyung.com/politics/article/202003178505i|access-date= 17 March 2020}}{{cite news |date= 17 March 2020|title= 與, 범여 원로 주축 '정치개혁연합' 대신 親조국 '시민을위하여'와 비례당 꾸리기로|url= https://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2020/03/17/2020031703363.html|access-date= 17 March 2020}}{{cite news |date= 17 March 2020|script-title=ko:민주, 비례연합 플랫폼 '시민을위하여' 선택|url= https://www.yonhapnewstv.co.kr/news/MYH20200317015000641?did=1825m|access-date= 17 March 2020}} The next day, it changed its name to the current one.{{cite news |date= 18 March 2020|script-title=ko:민주당 비례정당은 '더불어시민당'…"열린민주당은 유사품"|url= https://news.joins.com/article/23733282|access-date= 20 March 2020}}

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 transphobic remarks about sexual minorities. Two of the five National Assembly candidates for the Green Party Korea belong to the LGBT Community.{{cite news |date= 22 March 2020|script-title=ko:녹색당, 비례연합정당 합류 제안에 "참여 않는다" 재확인|url= https://www.vop.co.kr/A00001476701.html|access-date= 26 March 2020}}

On 25 March, the Democratic Party confirmed that they would send 7 MPs to this party.{{cite news |date= 25 March 2020|script-title=ko:민주당 "현역 의원 7명, 더불어시민당에 파견"|url= http://www.sisajournal.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=197780|access-date= 26 March 2020}}

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.{{cite web |title=Election law should be revised before integration with proportional parties |url=http://www.donga.com/en/article/all/20200425/2047133/1/Election-law-should-be-revised-before-integration-with-proportional-parties |website=The Dong-A Ilbo |accessdate=2 May 2020 |date=25 April 2020}} On 13 May, the party declared its merge into the Democratic Party.{{cite news |date= 13 May 2020|script-title=ko:민주당-더불어시민당 합당 마무리…민주당, 177석으로 21대 국회 시작|url= https://world.kbs.co.kr/service/news_view.htm?lang=k&Seq_Code=354849|access-date= 14 May 2020}}

Ideology

The party is described as "pro-Moon Jae-in" and/or "pro-Cho Kuk", supporting Cho Kuk as the Minister of Justice.{{Verify source|date=April 2020}} During the cooperation agreement, several left-of-centre parties including the Minjung Party refused to join as they did not want to join an electoral alliance led by pro-Moon figures.

The party's position towards same-sex marriage was not clear, as the Democratic Party did not want to include explicitly pro-LGBT parties in their alliance.

Election results

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" ! rowspan="2" \| Election ! rowspan="2" \| Leader ! colspan="3" \| Constituency ! colspan="3" \| Party list ! rowspan="2" \| Seats ! rowspan="2" \| Position ! rowspan="2" \| Status
Votes ! % ! Seats ! Votes ! % ! Seats
2020 \| Woo Hee-jong Choi Bae-geun \| colspan="3" bgcolor="lightgrey" \| \| 9,307,112 \| 33.36 \| {{Composition bar\|17\|47\|{{party color\|Platform Party}}}} \| {{Composition bar\|17\|300\|{{party color\|Platform Party}}}} \| 2nd \| {{yes2\|Government}}

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