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|party_logo = 180px |chairperson = Emily Lau |leader1_title = Vice-Chairpersons |leader1_name = Lo Kin-hei Andrew Wan |colorcode = #5FB04A |foundation = |merger = United Democrats Meeting Point The Frontier |youth_wing = Young Democrats |headquarters = 4/F, Hanley House, 776–778 Nathan Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong |membership_year = 2015 |membership = 788〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=The Democratic Party )〕 |affiliation1_title = Regional affiliation |affiliation1 = Pan-democracy camp |international = |position = Centre to centre-left |ideology = Liberalism Social liberalism |seats1_title = Legislative Council |seats1 = |seats2_title = District Councils |seats2 = |colours = Green |website = }} The Democratic Party () is a centre-left〔 pro-democracy liberal political party in Hong Kong. It is currently the third largest party in the Legislative Council, having 6 legislators, 43 District Councillors and around 788 members. The Democratic Party was founded on 2 October 1994 as the merger of the two pro-democracy parties the United Democrats of Hong Kong and the Meeting Point. The United Democrats was formed in 1990 as the grand alliance of the pro-democracy activists on the eve of the handover of Hong Kong. Its Chairman Martin Lee Chu-ming who protested against Beijing's Tiananmen Square crackdown was seen as "treason" by the Beijing government. The United Democrats won a landslide victory in the first ever Legislative Council election. In 1994, the United Democrats merged with another pro-democracy party, the Meeting Point in preparation of the 1995 Legislative Council election. Led by Martin Lee, the Democratic Party won another landslide victory in the election, becoming the largest party in the legislature. It boycotted the Beijing-controlled Provisional Legislative Council and thus lost all its seats in the legislature after 1997. It regained the largest party status in the 1998 Legislative Council election and suffered intra-party struggles and new-emerging pro-democracy independents and party such as the professional-formed Civic Party in the 2000s. After the 2008 Legislative Council election, it absorbed Emily Lau Wai-hing's The Frontier. In 2010, the party reached a breakthrough agreement with the Beijing government over the constitutional reform proposal, which caused disaffection from its pan-democrat allies. In the 2012 Chief Executive election, party Chairman Albert Ho Chun-yan ran against two pro-Beijing candidates Henry Tang Ying-yen and Leung Chun-ying but was not elected by the 1200-member Election Committee. In the 2012 Legislative Council election, the party suffered the largest defeat in party history, retaining only six seats. Albert Ho as Chairman resigned for the election results and Emily Lau became party's first Chairwoman after the December leadership election. ==Party beliefs== From the outset, the party supported the restoration of Chinese sovereignty over Hong Kong. However, since the Handover it has consistently stressed the "two systems" part of the "one country, two systems" principle. The party's stance on Hong Kong's future development differs from that of pro-Beijing parties. It believes Hong Kong must develop more democratic institutions and preserve freedoms and human rights to achieve prosperity. The party proposed policies on various areas of governance through designated spokespersons, including: *Amendment of the Basic Law to achieve more democracy and safeguard freedoms, while achieving closer economic co-operation with Mainland China. *Protection of human rights. *Maintain Hong Kong's status as an international finance and trade centre and improve its economic infrastructure (concrete details not given), as well as a more flexible way to control public expenditure. *Better monitoring of public services and utilities (i.e. more accountability), and strengthened measures to protect the environment. *More resources for education, with less vague policies. *Reasonable (i.e. larger) share of economic achievements by the employee for the employee, and increased involvement by the Government to protect labour laws in accordance with social needs. *Adopt measures to regulate property prices from fluctuation, and provide adequate public housing *Increase spending on social welfare. Overall, the Democratic Party advocates economic policies pretty close to "liberalism" in the sense of John Rawls (rather than, say, of Robert Nozick or Friedrich Hayek, as commonly accepted outside North America), in sharp contrast with the traditional radical free-market orientation of Hong Kong. However, this point is rarely mentioned in the speeches held by party members during their trips abroad to seek political support. The party's position on social or cultural issues is not well-defined but verges on the moderate, partly due to some support from centrist pan-democrat supporters. In a way that may seem contradictory to traditional liberal ideology, the party generally opposes the legalisation of commercial sex or gambling operations. However, the Democratic Party generally support to legalise laws which would prohibit discriminations against the LGBT, despite part of the conservative wing of the party against it. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Democratic Party (Hong Kong)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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