Hirofumi Hirano

Hirofumi Hirano (2010)

Hirofumi Hirano ( Japanese 平野 博 文 , Hirano Hirofumi ; born March 19, 1949 in Katsuragi , Ito County , Wakayama Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician (independent → DPJ → DFP → DVP ) and a member of the Shūgiin , the lower house of the national parliament , for the 11th constituency of Osaka . He was chief cabinet secretary from 2009 to 2010 and minister of education and science in 2012 . Since September 2018 he has been Secretary General of the Democratic People's Party ( Kokumin Minshutō ; English Democratic Party For the People ).

Life

Career

Hirano, a graduate of Chūō University , worked after graduating in 1971 for Matsushita Denki Sangyō (English Matsushita Electric Industrial ).

From 1983 he was secretary of Shugiin deputies Muneo Nakamura of the Japan Socialist Party (Engl. Japan Socialist Party , from 1991 Social Democratic Party of Japan ). In the 1996 election he was elected to Shūgiin as an independent in the 11th constituency of Osaka . There he was re-elected four times in a row.

In 1998, he joined the Democratic Party (Engl. Democratic Party of Japan ) at. Within the party, he belonged to the Hatoyama group of former party chairman Yukio Hatoyama . In the Democratic Party, Hirano was a member of the Executive Council and chairman of the Osaka Prefectural Association.

Chief Cabinet Secretary and Minister

In September 2009, after Yukio Hatoyama took office as Prime Minister in his cabinet, he received the key post of Chief Cabinet Secretary. After the withdrawal of the Social Democratic Party (SDP, Eng. Social Democratic Party ) from the coalition government he took over for a few days and the ministerial positions (consumer protection, births, equality ) of the SDP chairman Mizuho Fukushima after their dismissal on 28 May 2010. This office ended when the Hatoyama cabinet resigned in June 2010.

Under Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda , he became Minister of Education, Culture, Sport, Science and Technology when he was reshuffled for the first time on January 13, 2012, but lost it again in the third reshuffle on October 1, 2012. In the 2012 Shūgiin election , he lost 11th constituency to Nobuhisa Itō of the Nippon Ishin no Kai (English Japan Restoration Party ), which became the strongest party in Osaka, and also missed re-election in the Kinki proportional representation.

Again in the opposition

In the 2014 election he was again defeated in constituency 11, this time to the liberal democrat Yukari Satō , but was able to achieve fourth place on the democratic list in Kinki with his constituency result and thus won a seat in the proportional representation. Since the merger of the Democrats with the Ishin no Tō (English Japan Innovation Party ), he again leads the Osaka Prefectural Association in the Minshintō.

In the 2017 Shūgiin election , Hirano was one of the Minshintō members who remained after the split from Kibō no Tō and the Constitutional Democratic Party, who ran for proportional representation without a party nomination and thus without the possibility of double candidacy. But this time he prevailed in constituency 11 with 36.7% of the vote against Yukari Satō (33.5%) and Nobuhisa Itō (29.8%). After the election, like most Minshinto MPs, he participated in the founding of the Mushozoku no Kai faction , but left it in May 2018 and joined the newly founded People's Democratic Party. There he was appointed general secretary by party chairman Yūichirō Tamaki in September of that year, replacing Motohisa Furukawa  in this role.

Web links

• Official Website (Japanese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Yomiuri Shimbun , Shūgiin 2014 election results: Majority election, Osaka Prefecture, constituency 11 ( Memento of the original from October 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. and proportional representation, Block Kinki, Democratic Party ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) 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.  
2. ^ Minshintō, Osaka Prefectural Association: Board of Directors (Japanese)
3. ↑ Yomiuri Shimbun : Shūgiin 2017 election results, Osaka ( Memento of the original from December 16, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 
4. ↑ 【国民 民主党 役 員 人事】 幹事 長 に 平野 博 文 氏 津 村 啓 介 氏 は 副 代表 に に 党 役 員 人事案 を 了 承 . In: Sankei Shimbun . September 11, 2018. Retrieved November 7, 2018 (Japanese).