Kamon Iizumi

Kamon Iizumi ( Japanese 飯 泉 嘉 門 , Iizumi Kamon ; born July 29, 1960 in Ikeda , Osaka Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician and has been the governor of Tokushima Prefecture since 2003 .

Iizumi, a graduate of the law faculty of the University of Tokyo , became a civil servant in Jichi-shō , the "Ministry of Self-Government" after graduating in 1984 , from which he was posted to the prefectural administrations of Nigata , Yamanashi and Saitama as well as to the Ministry of Post . In 2001 he finally came from the successor Ministry of Sōmu-shō as a department head in the prefecture administration of Tokushima. He stayed there until 2003, when he ended his civil service career and after the prefectural parliament's vote of no confidence in the ex-social democrat Tadashi Ōta , since 2002, after a surprising election victory, the center-left-backed governor of the “conservative kingdom” Tokushima, in the new elections in May 2003 to compete.

Iizumi's candidacy was supported by the Liberal Democratic Party and Kōmeitō , he received around 206,000 votes and thus had more than 8,000 votes ahead of Governor Ōta, he replaced him in May 2003. In 2007 and 2011, when the gubernatorial election was held in the unified regional elections in April, Iizumi was only confirmed in office against the CPY candidate Chiyoko Yamamoto. In 2015 he won overwhelmingly, now against another communist challenger. In the 2019 gubernatorial election (still part of the unified elections in April ), a communist and former Prefectural MP Taiji Kishimoto ran against Iizumi, but Iizumi remained victorious with 53% of the vote.

Web links

• Official Website (Japanese)
• Zenkoku Chijikai : Short biography (Japanese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Shikoku Hōsō : Result of the gubernatorial election in Tokushima 2003 ( Memento from January 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive )