Justice Party

History

Promoting the creation of a party

Shim Sang-jeong, Roh Hoe-chan, Yoo Si-min, Jo Jun-ho, etc., who participated in the emergency response committee and promoted party reform after the Unified Progressive Party's rigged primary election incident, called for 'progressive regime change' on August 7, 2012, after the expulsion of Reps. Lee Seok-ki and Kim Jae - yeon from the general assembly was rejected . and formed the 'Innovation Promotion Group for a Popular Progressive Party' (abbreviated name: Progressive Political Innovation Group), and agreed to break away from the original Unified Progressive Party.

Eventually, starting with the resignation and withdrawal of Representative Kang Ki-gap on September 10, 2012, the withdrawal of Kwon Young-gil , former Democratic Labor Party leader Cheon Young-se , Lee Jeong-mi, Supreme Council member Cheon Ho-seon, Kang Dong- won, Roh Hoe-chan, Representative Sim Sang-jeong, Yoo Si-min, former co-representative Jo Jun-ho and local lawmakers. In addition, the Progressive Political Innovation Group held a national convention at the Guro Community Center in Seoul on September 16 and formed the 'New Progressive Party Promotion Conference'. At this meeting, Rep. Roh Hoe-chan and former Unified Progressive Party co-representative Jo Jun-ho were elected as co-representatives.

The New Progressive Party Promotion Conference held the first National Steering Committee on September 26, 2012, and held a meeting of party initiators at the Yongsan Railway Hall in Seoul on October 7 to decide on the name of the party and form the 'Progressive Justice Party Creation Preparation Committee'. ' was formed. A founding convention was held on October 21, 2012, and Representative Sim Sang-jung was elected as the Progressive Justice Party's presidential candidate. However, on November 26, 2012, Sim Sang-jung became the 18th President of the Republic of Korea to change the government and unify the opposition. He gave up registering as a presidential candidate and resigned from his presidential candidacy.

On July 21, 2013, the '2013 Progressive Justice Party Innovation Convention' was held and the party name was changed from 'Progressive Justice Party' to 'Justice Party'. Also, former supreme council member Cheon Ho-seon was elected as the party representative at this meeting.

In January 2014, a new party PI was established and the symbol color was also changed from pink to yellow.

The 6th National Simultaneous Local Election and 2014 South Korea by-election

Progressive political parties were divided and the Justice Party came up with a 1+3 plan in the local elections less than two years after its founding. It was a strategy to focus on one head of a metropolitan government (Ulsan Metropolitan City) and three heads of basic local governments (Mayors of Namdong-gu, Dong-gu, and Gwacheon, Incheon Metropolitan City) through the opposition alliance, while avoiding duplicating the Labor Party's transitional candidates. However, due to the low recognition of the party, the dispersion of votes for progressive parties, and a close defeat in the district mayor election in the Incheon region, the Justice Party has not even elected a single member for the first time in the local government council elections, which elect city council members and district council members, let alone local government heads. Only 11 people were elected.

With the four progressive parties all receiving poor performance in the local elections, and in a desperate situation to expand the party's popularity and influence, the Justice Party decided to focus its efforts on the July 30 by-elections held immediately after the June 4 local elections. To this end, in all constituencies in the metropolitan area, except for Pyeongtaek, where candidate Kim Deuk-jung is running , and in Gwangju, the party's representative, Cheon Ho-seon , former representative, Roh Hoe -chan, vice-representative Moon Jeong-eun, and former vice-representative and party spokesperson Lee Jeong-mi , are nominated to join the New Politics Alliance for Democracy. We propose an opposition alliance. However, as the New Politics Alliance for Democracy refused this and registered all candidates, the party's opposition coalition collapsed. In Dongjak-eul, candidate Ki Dong-min resigned as a candidate and gave way to Roh Hoe-chan , and the Justice Party 's Cheon Ho-seon , who ran for Suwon County and Suwon City Hall, respectively. With the resignation of Candidate and Lee Jeong-mi , a partial coalition was formed between the opposition parties. As a result of the 7.30 by-election, Roh Hoe-chan was defeated by Na Kyung-won by 929 votes and failed to gain significant support in Gwangju and Gimpo districts, but the party's awareness greatly expanded and more than 4,000 people joined the Justice Party after the by-election.

Progressive Unity and Unified Party Convention

On October 27, 2015, an agreement was reached between the four organizations, the Justice Party , the National Assembly , the Progressive Unity+ , and the Labor Political Solidarity, to hold a unified party convention under the name of the Justice Party . Won 6 seats in the 20th National Assembly election .

3rd 2nd Extraordinary Party Congress

As a result of the 2nd extraordinary party conference of the 3rd term on September 27, 2016, "Democratic Socialist Party" was tentatively decided as the new party name. However, in a vote by party members, the party name change plan was rejected with 31% in favor and 69% against, so the Justice Party name was continued to be used.

2017

Candidate Sim Sang -jung was selected as the Justice Party's presidential candidate in the party's primary ahead of the 19th presidential election . As a result of the election, candidate Sim Sang-jung failed to receive double-digit votes, but recorded the highest vote rate among progressive party candidates who have ever run in presidential elections. There are evaluations that he showed his presence in discussions, etc.

As a result of the party office election vote count on July 11, candidate Lee Jeong-mi defeated candidate Park Won-seok and was elected as the new representative.

In November, criticism poured in against the Justice Party when Rep. Kim Jong-dae posted an article criticizing Professor Lee Guk-jong .

2018

Together with the Party for Democracy and Peace , a joint negotiation group called the Peace and Justice Assembly was formed.

Afterwards, it ranked third after the Democratic Party of Korea and the Liberty Korea Party in the 7th National Simultaneous Local Elections . Although the Justice Party failed to produce a single head of a metropolitan or basic organization, it received 8.97% of the party vote in the proportional representation election for metropolitan members. Reameter's poll showed on July 12, 2018 that the Justice Party's approval rating has risen for the 7th week, reaching a new high for 3 consecutive weeks, and approaching the Liberty Korea Party's approval rating within the margin of error.

However, it was assessed that it slowed down as Justice Party lawmaker Roh Hoe-chan was implicated in the Democratic Party of Korea's comment manipulation incident . [19] And the Justice Party was shocked by the news of Representative Roh's death on July 23, 2018. [20] At the same time, the negotiating group with the Party for Democracy and Peace was also disbanded. The Justice Party criticized Special Prosecutor Druking , saying, "We express regret over the Special Prosecutor's targeted investigation of Roh Hoe-chan , which did not meet its essential purpose."

It is said that after Rep. Roh Hoe-chan's death, membership and donations to the Justice Party increased. The Justice Party decided not to confirm or disclose specific figures during the funeral of the deceased. And in a Gallup Korea opinion poll, the Justice Party's approval rating reached an all-time high of 15%, beating out the main opposition Liberty Korea Party and taking second place.

Meanwhile, the Justice Party is actively pushing for the abolition of special activity fees for the National Assembly. The special activity expenses for July, which were allocated to former floor leader Roh, were not used and were discarded.

Since 2018

In 2021, Representative Kim Jong- cheol was dismissed from his position due to the sexual harassment incident of Representative Jang Hye- young.

Ahead of the 20th presidential election of the Republic of Korea in 2022, Rep. Sim Sang-jeong was elected as a candidate and ran for office. As a result of the main election, he lost with a vote rate of 2.37%.

Due to the election defeat in the 8th national simultaneous local election in 2022, the number of metropolitan and basic lawmakers decreased. It accepted a lower report card than the Progressive Party , which elected only 8 basic lawmakers and won 20 seats .

At the national convention, former representative Lee Jeong-mi was elected as a representative.

The National Assembly voted in favor of the motion for the arrest of Lee Jae-myung , leader of the Democratic Party of Korea. Moderate groups within the party, such as the 'New Progressives', protested.

Changed to Green Justice Party

On February 3, 2024, ahead of the 22nd National Assembly election , it joined forces with the Green Party and changed its name to the Green Justice Party . However, as a result of the general election, all candidates failed to win, making it an outside party, and the name of the party was later changed

Tendency

The leadership and members of the Justice Party claim 'Korean-style social democracy ' as the party's ideology. In a survey of party members asking 'the most important ideology to the Justice Party' , social democracy received the most support at 47.1%.

Ideologically, there are both factions that support Korean liberalism and Korean progressivism , but in Korea, they are evaluated only as a progressive political party of the Republic of Korea that is close to the direction of the progressive ideology , and the Democratic Party of Korea, a political party that supports the liberalism of the Republic of Korea, is I don't think it is included in the genealogy. The Justice Party is described as “liberal” or “progressive” in various domestic and foreign media.

When viewed on a left/right scale, it is mainly evaluated as a center-left party, but in Korea's political landscape , it is also evaluated as having a left-wing tendency. However, compared to European center-left parties, it takes a more moderate stance. [

Past leadership

Past representatives

Past floor leaders

Leadership of the New Progressive Party Promotion Council

2012. 9. 16.~2012. 10. 7.

• Co-representatives: Noh Hoe-chan , Jo Joon-ho

1st leadership

2012. 10. 21.~2013. 7. 21.

• Co-representatives: Noh Hoe-chan , Jo Joon-ho

• Floor leader: Kang Dong-won → Sim Sang -jeong

• Supreme Committee members: Jae-young Song, Jeong-mi Lee , Hong-woo Lee , Ho-seon Cheon , In-sook Park, So-heon Lee

• Secretary General: Taehong Kwon

• Policy Committee Chairman: Jeong Jin-hoo

2nd leadership

July 21, 2013~2015. 7. 18.

• Representative: Cheon Ho-seon

• Floor leader: Sim Sang-jeong → Jeong Jin-hoo

• Vice Representatives: Lee Jeong-mi , Kim Myeong-mi , Moon Jeong-eun

• Secretary General: Taehong Kwon

• Policy Committee Chairman: Cho Seung-su

3rd leadership

2015. 7. 18.~2017. 7. 11

• Representative → Standing Representative: Sim Sang-jeong

• Co-representative [27] : Na Kyung-chae , Kim Se-kyun → Na Kyung- chae

• Floor leader: Jeong Jin-hoo → Roh Hoe-chan

• Deputy Representative: Jeong-mi Lee , Hyeong-tak Kim, Jun-ho Bae → Jeong-mi Lee, Hyeong-tak Kim, Jun-ho Bae, Byeong- ryeol Lee

• Secretary General: Hyukjae Lee

• Policy Committee Chairman: Kim Yong-shin

4th leadership

2017. 7. 11.~2019. 7. 13.

• Party Representative: Lee Jeong-mi

• Floor leader: Roh Hoe-chan → Yoon So-ha

• Vice Representatives: Eun-mi Kang , Hye-yeon Jeong , Chang-min Han

• Secretary General: Shin Jang-sik

• Policy Committee Chairman: Kim Yong-shin

5th leadership

July 13, 2019~2020. 10. 12.

• Party Representative: Sim Sang-jeong

• Floor leader: Yoon So-ha → Bae Jin-kyo → Kang Eun-mi

• Vice President: Jong-min Kim, Ye-hwi Park, Han-sol Lim → Jong-min Kim, Ye-hwi Park

6th leadership [ edit ]

2020. 10. 12.~2021. 1. 25.

• Party Representative: Kim Jong-cheol

• Floor leader: Kang Eun-mi

• Vice Presidents: Kim Yoon-ki , Kim Eung-ho, Park In-sook, Bae Bok-ju, Song Chi-yong

Emergency response meeting

January 25, 2021~2021. 1. 30.

• Co-representatives: Eunmi Kang , Yunki Kim [28]

• Party Representative: Kim Yoon-ki (Acting) [29] →Vacant seat

• Floor leader: Kang Eun-mi

• Vice Presidents: Kim Yoon-ki , Kim Eung-ho, Park In-sook, Bae Bok-ju, Song Chi-yong

Emergency Response Committee

January 30, 2021~2021. 3. 24.

• Emergency Response Committee Chairperson: Kang Eun-mi

• Emergency response committee members: Bae Bok-ju, Moon Young-mi , Hwang Soon-sik

• Floor leader: Kang Eun-mi

• Vice Presidents: Kim Yoon-ki , Kim Eung-ho, Park In-sook, Bae Bok-ju, Song Chi-yong

6th by-election leadership

March 24, 2021~2022. 6. 2.

• Party Representative: Yeo Young-guk → Lee Eun-joo (Acting Authority)

• Floor leader: Kang Eun-mi → Bae Jin-kyo → Lee Eun-ju

• Vice Representatives: Eung-ho Kim, In-sook Park, Bok-ju Bae, Chi-yong Song, Chang-jin Park

• Youth Justice Party Representative: Kang Min-jin

• Secretary General: Park Won-seok → Shin Eon-jik

• Policy Committee Chair: Jang Hye-young

Emergency Response Committee

2022. 6. 2.~2022. 10. 28.

• Emergency Response Committee Chairman: Lee Eun-ju

• Floor leader: Lee Eun-joo

• Secretary General: Shin Eon-jik

• Policy Committee Chair: Jang Hye-young

7th leadership

2022. 10. 28.~2023. 11. 6.

• Party Representative: Lee Jeong-mi

• Floor leader: Lee Eun-ju → Bae Jin-kyo

• Vice President: Hyeonjeong Lee, Kijoong Lee

• Youth Justice Party Representative: Kim Chang-in

Emergency Response Committee

2023. 11. 15. ~ 2024. 5.

• Emergency Response Committee Chairman: Kim Jun-woo

• Floor Leader: Bae Jin-kyo

• Emergency response committee members: Kim Jong-dae , Na Kyung-chae , Eom Jeong-ae

• Youth Justice Party Representative: Kim Chang-in

8th leadership

2024. 05. 28. ~

• Representative: Kwon Young-guk

• Vice President: Moon Jeong-eun, Eom Jeong-ae

• Acting floor leader: Jang Hye-young

Key election results

Presidential election

National Assembly elections

Local elections