Hiranuma group

The Kokueki to Kokumin no Seikatsu o mamoru Kai ( Japanese. 国 益 と 国民 の 生活 を 守 る 会 , dt. For "Assembly for the protection of national interests and the lives of the citizens"), mostly named after its former chairman as the Hiranuma group ( 平沼グ ル ー プ , Hiranuma gurūpu from English group ), was a conservative faction that existed from 2009 to 2011 in the Shūgiin , the lower house of the Japanese parliament . It last had two members. Until he left in April 2010, it was chaired by the former economics minister and long-time LDP member Takeo Hiranuma .

Hiranuma had to leave the LDP in the run-up to the Shūgiin election in 2005 as an opponent of the post-privatization operated by the party chairman and Prime Minister Jun'ichirō Koizumi and was re-elected as an independent in the 3rd constituency of Okayama against the "assassin" candidate Toshiko Abe . He then joined neither the new parties of the LDP "rebels", the New People's Party and the New Party of Japan , nor did he return to the LDP. In the run-up to the 2009 election , he announced the founding of a new party together with conservative independents. Hiranuma had already established a group of candidates, current and former members of the national parliament and in prefecture parliaments, which called itself the Hiranuma group , in July 2009 .

After the election, Hiranuma joined forces in the lower house together with former LDP MPs Minoru Kiuchi and Ryūji Koizumi to form the Kokueki to Kokumin no Seikatsu o mamoru Kai faction . In April 2010, Hiranuma founded the Tachiagare Nippon party with Kaoru Yosano , other ex-LDP MPs and the governor of Tokyo Shintaro Ishihara . The two remaining MPs of the "Hiranuma Group" kept the faction up until December 2011 when they joined the LDP faction ( jimintō - mushozoku no kai ).

Web links

• Hiranuma Group (Japanese)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hiranuma planning new party. In: The Japan Times . August 12, 2009, accessed March 21, 2010 . 
2. ↑ 「平沼 グ ル ー プ」 結成 、 第 ３ 極目 指 し １５ 人 で . (No longer available online.) In: Yomiuri Shimbun . July 22, 2009, archived from the original on February 19, 2013 ; Retrieved March 21, 2010 (Japanese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ 城内 氏 、 自 民 会 派 入 り 合意 石 原 幹事 長 と 「復 党 に 向 け た 第一 歩」 . In: 47 News / Shizuoka Shimbun . December 6, 2011, accessed December 31, 2011 (Japanese).