New Alternative Party (South Korea)


The New Alternatives was a South Korean political party founded in 2020.

History

The New Alternatives was originally organised by the conservative dissidents of the Party for Democracy and Peace on 16 July 2019, as the Alternative Political Alliance of Change and Hope. It was initially a part of PDP, but then split from PDP on 12 August.
It was refounded as a preparatory committee on 17 November, with the current name. It contains 8 MPs but one of them is a PR of Bareunmirae Party who would like to exit. Lee Yong-joo and Chung In-hwa was excluded.
On 12 January 2020, it held the official formation convention and elected Choi Gyung-hwan as its President.
It planned to be the largest party in the 2020 election. However, on 24 February 2020, it was merged into the Minsaeng Party.

Ideology

The New Alternatives described themselves as the "third position" and is willing to refuse both "fake conservatives" and "fake progressives". Nevertheless, its former Chairman, Yu Sung-yup, is economically liberal opposes Keynesian economic policy and minimum wages, and advocates tax reductions. Another member, Lee Yoon-suk, a former MP, opposes same-sex marriage and Islam.
The party adopted the "5 manifestos", which supports: