Genzei Nippon
| Genzei Nippon | |||
| Parteivorsitz (Daihyō) | Takashi Kawamura | ||
| founding | 2010 | ||
| Headquarters | 2-5-11 Kodeki, Higashi-ku , Nagoya , Aichi Prefecture | ||
| MPs in the Shūgiin |
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| MPs in the Sangiin |
0/242 |
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| Website | genzeinippon.com | ||
Genzei Nippon ( Japanese 減税 日本 , "Japan tax cut") is a primarily regionally active political party in Japan . It is the strongest party in the Nagoya City Council , Aichi Prefecture , provides the mayor of Nagoya and supported the successful candidacy of Hideaki Ōmura as governor of Aichi against the two major national parties . In the unified regional elections in April 2011 , it was the third largest party in the prefectural parliament of Aichi and moved into several local parliaments in the prefectures of Tokyo and Nagano .
After ex-Democrat Takashi Kawamura won the 2009 mayoral election in Nagoya, his plans to cut municipal taxes and lower city council payments brought him into conflict with both major parties. In 2010 he founded Genzei Nippon, the main demands of which are to lower the municipal “citizen tax ” ( shiminzei ) by ten percent and to reduce the salaries of parliamentarians. She also suggests relieving the city budget through the use of voluntary activities. Since the city council rejected Kawamura's plans, his supporters initiated a recall , and he resigned himself in order to secure a clear mandate for his plans in new elections. The recall vote and the new mayor election took place on the same day as the regular gubernatorial election in Aichi, in which the former liberal democrat Hideaki Ōmura applied, who advocates a reduction in the prefecture “citizen tax ” ( kenminzei ) and whose candidacy he and his former party in Brought conflict. Genzei Nippon supported Ōmura's successful candidacy, Kawamura won the mayoral election and the recall was successful; in the new elections to the council, the party became the strongest force in the previous “democratic kingdom” of Nagoya.
In March 2011, Yūko Satō , MP for Nagoya in the Shūgiin , the lower house of the national parliament, left the Democratic Party and later joined the Genzei Nippon. In 2012, four more Shūgiin MPs of the Democratic Party followed: Kōki Kobayashi (proportional representation block Tokyo) and Toshiaki Koizumi (Ibaraki) on August 17, as well as Atsushi Kumada (Ōsaka) and Tomohiko Mizuno (proportional representation block Kantō) on October 29, 2012. With now five It fulfilled the condition for formal recognition as a political party and thus the right to party funding.
On November 28, 2012, the Nippon Mirai no Tō party was founded, which the national MPs of Genzei Nippon joined before the 2012 Shūgiin election . A few days earlier they had merged with the han-TPP , the newly founded party of Masahiko Yamada and Shizuka Kamei , and the Genzei Nippon, han-TPP, datsu-gempatsu o jitsugen suru tō ( 減税 日本 ・ 反 TPP ・ 脱 原 発 を実 現 す る 党 ), datsu-gempatsu for short , was founded.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kanako Takahara, Natsuko Fukue: DPJ member bolts, ties with Nagoya mayor. In: The Japan Times . March 4, 2011, accessed April 2, 2011 .
- ↑ Eric Johnston: Latest DPJ defectors to join Nagoya force. In: The Japan Times. August 18, 2012, accessed November 17, 2012 .
- ↑ Nagoya mayor's Genzei Nippon becomes national political party. In: The Japan Time. November 1, 2012, accessed November 17, 2012 .