Democratic Party (2016)
The Democratic Party was a political party in Japan that operated between 2016 and 2018.
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Platform
History
The Democratic Party formed ahead of the 2016 elections as a merger of the DPJ with the Japan Innovation Party. Katsuya Okada of the former DPJ led the party into the election.
No leadership team managed to survive for a significant duration. Due to the poor results in the aforementioned 2016 elections (i.e. lost 19 of their 59 seats that were contested), Okada resigned. Due to the poor results in the 2017 Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly elections (lost 10 of their 15 seats), both Noda and Renhou Saitou resigned. Due to the poor results of the 2017 elections, Seiji Maehara resigned.
Even ahead of those general elections, the party began to fragment. The most important of the breakaway groups was the Constitutional Democratic Party.
In 2018, the party reorganized as the Democratic Party for the People.
Leaders
Leader |
Local Name |
Term |
Katsuya Okada |
岡田 克也 |
2016 |
Renhou Saitou |
斉藤 蓮舫 |
2016 - 2017 |
Seiji Maehara |
前原 誠司 |
2017 |
Kohei Otsuka |
大塚 耕平 |
2017 - 2018 |