Shinto Kaikaku
| Shinto Kaikaku | |||
| New Renaissance Party | |||
| Parteivorsitz (Daihyō) | Hiroyuki Arai | ||
| founding | 2008/2010 | ||
| resolution | December 31, 2016 | ||
| Headquarters | 2-16-5 Hirakawachō , Chiyoda , Tokyo Prefecture | ||
| MPs in the Shūgiin |
0/475 |
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| MPs in the Sangiin |
0/242 |
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| Government grants | 0.10 billion yen (2014) | ||
| Website | shintokaikaku.jp | ||
The Shintō Kaikaku ( Japanese. 新 党 改革 , "New Party Reform"; English. New Renaissance Party ) is a conservative political party in Japan , which was founded in April 2010 from the Kaikaku Club ( 改革 ク ラ ブ , Kaikaku Kurabu ; Eng. "Reform Club "; English Japan Renaissance Party ) emerged. Party chairman and last member of the national parliament was Hiroyuki Arai from July 2013 , temporarily non-party members (the longest Tatsuo Hirano ) of the Shinto Kaikaku faction (Shinto Kaikaku ・ Mushozoku Club) in the upper house . In the upper house elections in 2016 , the MP Tarō Yamada ran for the party; but Arai and Yamada lost their seats, the Shinto Kaikaku is no longer represented in the national parliament.
Kaikaku Club
Former Democratic House of Lords MP Hideo Watanabe founded the Kaikaku Club in 2008 together with two other ex-Democrats and two independent MPs.
With five members in both houses of parliament, four in the upper house and one in the lower house , the Kaikaku Club fulfilled the formal requirements for recognition as a party ; after the general election in 2009 , however, it only had four members in the upper house, which is why it was only considered a “political group” in terms of the law on party financing. Since 2009 he has formed a joint parliamentary group with the opposition Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in both chambers .
The Kaikaku Club was founded in 2008 during the "twisted parliament" ( Nejire Kokkai ), when negotiations on a grand coalition had failed and the different majorities in the lower and upper houses delayed legislative processes and blocked personnel nominations. The party declared that it wanted to break the blockade and work with the LDP-led government in an objective manner.
In the 2009 general election, the Kaikaku Club's only constituency candidate, MP Shingo Nishimura , received only around 36,000 votes in the 17th constituency of Osaka and ended up in third place. The Kinki proportional representation list, with Nishimura as the only candidate, only received around 58,000 votes (0.52% or 0.08% nationwide), which is why the Kaikaku Club only had the members of the upper house who agreed with the LDP to form one common group agreed. In October 2009, the MP Kishirō Nakamura joined the party. In January 2010, Toshio Yamauchi (House of Lords, Kagawa) joined and Shimpei Matsushita (House of Lords, Miyazaki) left.
Shinto Kaikaku
In April 2010, the former Minister of Social Affairs Yōichi Masuzoe left the LDP and announced his intention to found a new party. Masuzoe founded the Shinto Kaikaku together with three members of the Kaikaku Club and the MPs Tetsurō Yano and Masakatsu Koike , who also left the LDP . The other two former members of the Kaikaku Club left the party and maintained the factional community with the LDP. The LDP factions in both chambers continued to run Kaikaku Club as an addition on their behalf for a short time .
Five of the six members of the Shinto Kaikaku - all from the upper house - stood for re-election in the upper house election in July 2010 . All but Hiroyuki Arai were voted out of office, Masuzoe was not up for re-election until 2013 - with 2% of the proportional representation votes, the party also secured party status and state party funding for six years in 2010, provided it had at least one member in the national parliament. The parliamentary elections in 2012 and 2013 - Masuzoe no longer ran for re-election - and in 2014 the party only contested with few candidates, if at all, and remained unsuccessful.
Arai was voted out of office in the 2016 upper house election. The day after the election, he announced his withdrawal from politics and the dissolution of the Shinto Kaikaku.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sōmushō , April 1, 2014: 平 成 ２６ 年分 政党 交付 金 の 交付 決定
- ↑ Kazuaki Nagata: Four one short of forming party. In: The Japan Times . August 30, 2008, accessed January 18, 2010 .
- ↑ 衆議院> 第 45 回 衆議院 議員 選 挙> 大阪 府> 大阪 17 区 . (No longer available online.) In: ザ ・ 選 挙 . JANJAN (Japan Alternative News for Justices and New Cultures) September 17, 2008, archived from the original January 7, 2010 ; Retrieved November 20, 2009 (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.
- ↑ 新 党 改革 の 荒 井 広 幸 代表 が 政界 引退 と 解 党 を 表明 . In: Sankei News . July 11, 2016. Retrieved August 18, 2016 (Japanese).
Web links
- Kaikaku Club website (Japanese)