National Democratic Party (Magisteria)

The National Democratic Party of Magisteria (French: Parti National Démocrate de Magistere), officially known as the National Democratic Party–Political Organization of the People's Power and for the Revolution (French: Parti National Démocratique - Organisation Politique du Pouvoir Populaire et pour la Révolution), is a Magisterian socialist political party led by Charles Nishiyama, founded in 2022.

The party was formed shortly after Nishiyama's departure from the ruling Unified Socialist Party, led by incumbent president Phil Vibert. At the same time, Nishiyama is the early frontrunner of the upcoming 2025 presidential election and Nishiyama is expected to become the 2nd president of the contemporary Magisterian Democratic Socialist Republic.

As part of the formation of the party, Nishiyama brought in 49 deputies that are members of the ruling USP, which gives the NDP an automatic 49 seats in the parliament.

History
The party was formed by Nishiyama, with a moderately large portion of USP Marxist faction defectors and a small portion of USP Vibertist faction defectors joining the party. Many observers have seen Nishiyama's NDP as nothing more than a slight splinter, even more progressive wing of the ruling USP. Right-wing critics call NDP as Nishiyama's personal electoral vehicle for the 2025 election rather than an actual organized political party.

The formation of the NDP led into the national-conservative faction of the big tent conservative National Republican Coalition into threatening on making their own splinter party to face off the rising NDP if the leadership of the NRC doesn't fall into the faction's hands.

Ideology
The NDP itself does not have an ideological centre, and the different constituent movements belong to slightly different trends of thought. Marxist, social-democratic, anarchist, democratic-socialist, and Vibertists can be found within the NDP fold. Magisterian writer and economist Jean-Philippe Poindexter argues that there are three main factions within the party: the Vibert loyalists, the classical socialists, and the [left-wing] populists.