Grand Unified Democratic New Party
The Grand Unified Democratic New Party (Hangul: 대통합민주신당, Hanja: 大統合民主新黨, Abbreviation: GUDNP, lit. Grand Unified Democratic New Party) was a political party of South Korea. It was known as the Future Creative Grand Unified Democratic New Party until 5 August 2007. It was formed out of the Uri Party and its resulting splinter groups. Chung Dong-young was the UNDP 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(국민경선위원회). 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. Results. Source: The current status of the UNDP Primary, Seoprise.com, Retrieved on October 1, 2007. Re-merge with Democratic Party. On February,2007, Kim-Han-Kil, who was the flood leader of Uri party, decided to defect Uri party (열린우리당) with 23 councilors. And, they formed the new  party (their purpose was the destruction of Uri party (열린우리당), and the president Roh-Mu-Hyun, and his supporters). And some councilors of Uri party (열린우리당), supporters of Kim-Han-Kil, and supporters of Son-Hak-Gyu merged, and then they formed the United New Democracy Party (대통합민주신당). On February 17, 2008, the UNDP merged with the Democratic Party (민주당), forming the United Democratic Party (통합민주당). This was four years after the Uri Party (열린우리당)'s split from the Millennium Democratic Party (새천년민주당).