Kōki Ishii (politician)

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Kōki Ishii ( Japanese 石井 紘 基 , Ishii Kōki ; born November 6, 1940 in Tokyo; † October 25, 2002 ibid) was a Japanese politician and member of the Shūgiin , the lower house of the national parliament.

Ishii studied at Chūō University , where he was involved in student self-government, the Graduate College of Waseda University and Lomonosov University and later became secretary of Satsuki Eda , the son of the ex-socialist Saburō Eda . In 1978 he participated with Eda, Naoto Kan and others in the founding of the Shakaiminshu Rengō ("Social Democratic League", SDF). In 1992 he became a member of the Nihon Shintō (JNP), for which he ran in the Shūgiin election in 1993 - the last according to the old suffrage in multi-mandate constituencies - in the four-mandate constituency Tokyo 3. With 23.6% of the vote, he achieved the highest percentage of votes. For the Hata cabinet , he became parliamentary state secretary in 1994 in the "General Affairs Authority" . After the collapse of the anti-LDP coalition in 1994, he did not participate in the founding of the Shinshintō (NFP), but initially joined the Jiyū Rengō ("Liberal League", LL), which he led in 1995 as party chairman. He later switched to Shintō Sakigake (NPH) and in 1996 to the newly founded Minshutō (DPJ). After the electoral reform, he ran in 1996 in the new single-seat constituency Tokyo 6 , where he was subject to Tetsundo Iwakuni (NFP) and Takao Ochi (LDP), but a mandate in the newly introduced proportional representation in the Tokyo bloc. In 2000 he won the constituency mandate. In 2002 he was stabbed to death by a right-wing extremist in Setagaya. His constituency won in the resulting by-election Yōko Komiyama (DPJ).