정당민주주의와 정당개혁

Abstract

Political Party is the essential element of the realization of domocracy and separation of powers. So, democracy is today party democracy. Diverse legal and institutional conditions should be arranged for the vitalization of party democracy. The conditions are the guarantee of the freedom of establishment of political parties and the plural party system, the protection of the State for political parties, the guarantee of equal opportunity among political parties, democratization of political parties, etc. In order to accomplish the conditions, the concrete reforms of political party system must be realized as follows; 1. the amendment of Aricle 8 of the Constitution, 2. the mitigation of the requirements of establishment of a political party including the permission of local parties, 3. the mitigation of the requirements of Revocation of Registration of a political party, 4. the mitigation of the requirements of negotiating party, 5. the mitigation of election threshold, 6. the expansion of the rate of the proportional representative National Assembly members, 7. democratization and legalization of recommendation procedures of candidates by political parties, 8. the transfer from open primary to closed primary, 9. the legalization of loss of office of the National Assembly member or the local council member of the relevant party in the dissolution of the unconstitutional political party. The above-mentioned concrete reforms of political party system should be realized for the successful settlement of the mixed-member propotional system according to the recently revised Public Official Election Act and for the vitalization of party democracy based on plural democracy.