Democratic Party (Japan, 2016)
The Democratic Party (民進党, Minshintō), abbreviated as DP, was a political party in Japan. It was the largest opposition political party in Japan from 2016 until its marginalization in the House of Representatives in 2017. The party was founded on 27 March 2016 from the merger of the Democratic Party of Japan and the Japan Innovation Party. The majority of the party split on 28 September 2017, before the 2017 general election, with many its members contesting the election as candidates for the Party of Hope, Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan or as party members without nomination. On 7 May 2018 the DP merged with the Party of Hope to form the Democratic Party for the People.
Democratic Party 民進党 Minshintō | |
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| Japanese name | Minshintō |
| Leader | Kohei Otsuka |
| Founded | 27 March 2016 |
| Dissolved | 7 May 2018 |
| Merger of | |
| Merged into | Democratic Party for the People[a] |
| Headquarters | Nagatachō, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan |
| Newspaper | Minshin Press |
| Ideology | Liberalism (Japanese)[b] |
| Political position | Centre to centre-left[b] |
| Colors | Blue Red |
| Website | |
| minshin.jp | |
^ a: The candidates of this party ran as independents in 2017 Lower house election and sat within Group of Independents and merged with Kibō no Tō to form DPFP, a party born from splits in the Liberal Democratic Party and Democratic Party. ^ b: But there were also some conservative centre-right factions within the party. | |
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