Talk:Ruling party

Definition

In parliamentary democracies themselves, "ruling party" is not actually the normal term for the party that is in power or government. Nor can it really be called a technical term. Why is this article titled this way?

Bathrobe (talk) 02:21, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Japan Opposition Party

I moved this text here, because I think it should belong to opposition parties of Japan:

Until recently, Japan’s leading opposition party was the SDPJ (known as the Japan Socialist Party until 1991). For many years the party embraced a leftist platform, advocating socialist revolution and military neutrality. With other opposition parties, it also championed various social welfare issues, such as national health insurance. In the late 1980s the SDPJ began to move to the right, dropping the goal of socialist revolution from its party platform. Two of the party’s leaders have served as prime minister: Tetsu Katayama in 1947-1948, and Murayama Tomiichi from 1994 to 1996. In the late 1990s the SDPJ lost its former prominence as a variety of new parties emerged as the LDP’s principal opposition. Japan has several other major long-standing opposition parties. The Japan Communist Party (JCP) advocates unarmed neutrality and a peaceful transition to socialism. New Komeito is a centrist party that was initially affiliated with a religious organization known as Sōka Gakkai but officially severed its ties to the group in 1970. The Democratic Socialist Party (DSP) was formed by a right-wing group that split from the SDPJ in 1960. With the fracturing of the LDP in the early 1990s, several new opposition parties were formed by LDP defectors. The most important of these was the Japan New Party, which advocated government reform. Its leader, Hosokawa Morihiro, became prime minister at the head of the eight-party coalition government in 1993. After the coalition fell apart in 1994, the Japan New Party merged with several other reform groups to form the New Frontier Party (NFP; in Japanese, Shinshinto). The NFP split apart in 1997, giving rise to a number of new parties, including the Liberal Party, which entered into a coalition with the LDP in 1999. However, the Liberal Party was absorbed by the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) in 2003. The DPJ is a centrist party that was founded in the 1990s to advocate reforms such as the decentralization of government power. In 2005 a group of LDP defectors who opposed the reforms of Prime Minister Koizumi Junichiro formed another new party, the New People’s Party.

Mikael Häggström (talk) 06:56, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

== A summary on current ruling party with its party