Renewal Party
| Renewal Party | |||
| Shinseitō | |||
| Japan Renewal Party | |||
| Party presidency ( tōshu) | Tsutomu Hata | ||
| Secretary General | Ichirō Ozawa | ||
| Executive Board Chair | Hajime Funada | ||
| PARC Chair | Mamoru Nakajima | ||
| Group chairmanship in the Sangiin | Ichiji Ishii | ||
| founding | June 23, 1993 | ||
| resolution | December 10, 1994 | ||
| Headquarters | 1-11 Kioi , Chiyoda , Tokyo Prefecture | ||
| MPs in the Shūgiin |
55/511 |
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| MPs in the Sangiin |
8/252 |
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The Renewal Party ( Japanese 新生 党 , Shinseitō ; abbreviated 新生 , Shinsei ; English Japan Renewal Party , JRP) was a political party in Japan . It existed between 1993 and 1994. It was one of the first new parties to emerge during the crisis in the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in the early 1990s.
history
The Renewal Party was founded on June 23, 1993 by Tsutomu Hata and Ichirō Ozawa , who had left the LDP after a leadership dispute with faction leader Noboru Takeshita after several scandals . The LDP MPs of the Hata Ozawa faction joined them, whereby the party immediately rose to the third largest opposition party when it was founded with 36 lower house and 8 upper house members and the LDP lost its absolute majority in the lower house.
In the following general election in 1993 , the Renewal Party won another 19 seats and overtook the Kōmeitō . After the election, the previous opposition parties, with the exception of the Communist Party, formed a coalition and pushed the LDP out of government after 38 years. Hata, the leader of the Renewal Party, became foreign minister in the coalition after Secretary-General Ozawa organized the coalition talks.
In April 1994 the Socialist Party left the government in a dispute and the other coalition parties formed a minority government. Hata became prime minister, but resigned after two months and enabled the LDP to return to power through an alliance with its arch-rival, the Socialist Party.
As a result of this setback, the parties, which had now been forced into the opposition, negotiated the formation of a common party to pool their forces. All members of the renewal party joined the new party, the Shinshinto , and with the founding party convention of the Shinshinto on December 10, 1994, the renewal party ceased to exist as an independent force.