지방선거 정당공천제의 한계와 과제 - 지방의회의 활성화를 중심으로 -

Abstract

The goal of this research is to propose new local election system by seeking solutions for more effective and democratic public nomination of the political party of local councilor. The success of local autonomy depends on the right local elections. However, the elections executed during the 1950s and four times local elections executed since local autonomy system has been reimplemented were not proper, owing to political party's lacking willingness for clean election, distorted public nomination system, and immature citizenship so far. Under the revised new election law passed by Nation Assembly unilaterally, not only the local councils but local autonomy will be subordinated to political parties which can't be seen still the democratic parties. Therefore, it is imperative, to solve these problems, the public nomination of political party of basic-level local councilors should be excluded in 2006 local election in the last way at least. In the long run, the exsiting simultaneous local election must be separated in two different days, and that public nomination of political party should be eliminated in basic-level local elections while public nomination of political party can be permitted in wide-level local elections.