The
Democratic Party of Vietnam (
Đảng Dân chủ Việt Nam) was a political party in North Vietnam and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. It was founded on 30 July 1944 to unite
petty bourgeoisie and
intelligentsia. It joined
Vietminh. From 1954 to 1975, it was active in
North Vietnam and from 1975 to 1988 in the re-unified Vietnam. It supported the line of the
Communist Party of Vietnam and became in effect its
satellite party. It was a member of the
Vietnamese Fatherland Front and was represented in the Vietnamese parliament and government, its leader was Nghiem Xuan Yem. The party (along with the other 'non-communist' party in Vietnam, the
Socialist Party) was disbanded in 1988.