Democratic Liberal Party (Japan)

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The Democratic Liberal Party (Japanese: 民主自由党, Minshujiyutō Minjutō) was a political party in Japan.

History

The party was established in March 1947 as a merger of the Liberal Party, Dōshi Club and a faction of the Democratic Party led by Saitō Takao.^[1] United by their opposition to the coal nationalisation law, the new party had 152 MPs and 46 members of the House of Councillors.^[1]

As a result of the DLP's attempts to block Yamazaki Takeshi from forming a new government after Hitoshi Ashida resigned as Prime Minister, the party's Shigeru Yoshida became Prime Minister in October 1948 and early elections were called in January 1949.^[1] The DLP won a landslide victory, taking 269 of the 466 seats, the first time a party had held a majority of seats since World War II.^[1] Shigeru Yoshida continued as Prime Minister.

In March 1950 the party merged with the Alliance faction of the Democratic Party to form the new Liberal Party.^[2]

References

1 2 3 4 Haruhiro Fukui (1985) Political parties of Asia and the Pacific, Greenwood Press, pp481–482
↑ Fukui, p568

Political parties in Japan

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Governing parties	Liberal Democratic Komeito

Opposition parties	Democratic Communist Initiatives from Osaka Social Democratic People's Life Party & Taro Yamamoto and Friends Japanese Kokoro New Renaissance Party

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seats inthe National Diet

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seats in regional assemblies

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