The Grand Unified Democratic New Party (GUDNP; ) was a political party of South Korea. It was formed out of the Uri Party and its resulting splinter groups. Chung Dong-young was the party's candidate in the 2007 South Korean presidential election; he lost to Lee Myung-bak. On February 17, 2008, the party merged with the Democratic Party to form the United Democratic Party.

Brief history

The party was formed when loyalists to president Roh Moo-hyun in the Uri Party chose to break ranks from other party members who showed lukewarm support for the administration. Some 80 out of 152 lawmakers of the Uri Party joined the new party, a conservative-liberal minority group from the Hannara Party (led by Son Hak-Gyu), and a group of progressive civil rights' group from outside South Korean politics also joined, seeking to complete political reforms. As a result of merge with the Uri Party, this party has been ranked as the biggest political party in the legislative by 140 of 298 seats (as of January 14, 2008). After receiving a 'shocked' result at the 2007 presidential election, the delegates of its party decided to elect a new leader, with adopting a 'Papal conclave'-style system. On January 11, with more than a half delegates' vote, Son Hak-gyu was elected to lead at the 2008 parliamentary election.

Principles of policies

This party's platform emphasized these 4 key ideologies.

Presidential election primary

Timeline

These list of key events has been managed by its public primary election committee.

Rules

The official result of this primary combines all votes of these key methods. First-past-the-post and Electronic voting system is being used. Method 1 and 2 grants exactly 90% of results (Method 3 grants 10%). The official candidate of this party will be nominated on October 14, just after the last regional rounds finishes. Due to the executives of this party's decision, All candidates did not contested during the Hangawi holidays and the 2007 Inter-Korean summit periods.

Candidates

As of August 25, 2007, 9 politicians has been set up to their presidential bid. Before starting their official primary to the South Korean public, they have to access the 'cut-off' process to reduce from 9 to 5. Later, the number of candidates reduced to 3 after ex-Health and Welfare Minister Rhyu Si-min and former Prime Minister Han Myeong-sook quit the race. Here's a list of official candidates of the UNDP primary that announced on September 5, 2007, 05:30GMT. (Placed in order. Not considered its cut-off results. Based as of September 23, 2007)

Results

Source: The current status of the UNDP Primary, Seoprise.com, Retrieved on October 1, 2007.

Re-merge with Democratic Party

On February 17, 2008, the UNDP merged with the Democratic Party, forming the United Democratic Party. This was four years after the Uri Party's split from the Millennium Democratic Party.

Election results