Kokumin Minshutō (1950–1952)
| Kokumin Minshutō | |||
| Parteivorsitz (Saiko-iinchō) | Tomabechi Gizo | ||
| Secretary General |
Chiba Saburō → Miki Takeo |
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| founding | April 1950 | ||
| resolution | 1952 | ||
| MPs in the Shūgiin | 67 of 466 (April 1950) | ||
| MPs in the Sangiin | 29 of 250 (June 1950) | ||
The Kokumin Minshutō ( Japanese. 国民 民主党 , dt. "People's Democratic Party" or "National Democratic Party" or "National Democratic Party") was a political party in Japan . It came into being in 1950 after the Democratic Party finally split in a cabinet dispute with Prime Minister Yoshida Shigeru . Together with the two wings of the Socialist Party of Japan (SPJ), it was one of the largest opposition parties at the time. In 1952 she went to the Kaishintō (Eng. "Progress Party" or "Reform Party").
After the successful vote of no confidence in Yoshida in December 1948, the Democratic Party split in the resulting new elections in February 1949 into supporters and opponents of cooperation with his Democratic-Liberal Party (DLP). This won a clear absolute majority of the seats in the elections. While the supporters around the party chairman Inukai Takeru participated in the 3rd Yoshida cabinet , the opponents formed around Tomabechi Gizo , former chief cabinet secretary during the coalition with the SPJ. In February 1950, the Inukai supporters joined the DLP, which was now called the Liberal Party again. Two months later, the democrats who remained in the opposition came to an understanding with the Kokumin Kyōdōtō ("People's" or "National Cooperation Party" or "National Cooperative Party") of Miki Takeo and members of the Shin-seiji Kyōgikai faction led by this group ( 新 政治 協議会 ) on the merger to form Kokumin Minshutō. Tomabechi was or remained party chairman (as after the split in the Democrats no longer sosai , but saikō-iinchō , for example "Chairman of the Supreme Council"), and General Secretary Chiba Saburō initially retained his previous office in the new party.
In June 1950, the only national election the party ever contested took place: In the Sangiin election in 1950 , the Kokumin Minshutō only won nine seats (20 were not available), while the - still united - SPJ won 36 of the total of 61 seats Opposition parties won. In 1951, Tomabechi was a member of the Japanese delegation at the peace conference in San Francisco alongside Tokugawa Muneyoshi ( Ryokufūkai ) as a representative of the opposition .
In February 1952, the Kokumin Minshutō finally joined with parts of the Nōmin Kyōdōtō ("Peasant Cooperation Party "; a peasant party mainly represented in Hokkaidō ) and the Shinsei Club of former Minseitō politicians around Matsumura Kenzō , who after the end of the ban on office by the occupation authorities in politics returned to the Kaishinto together.
Individual evidence
- ↑ after Carmen Schmidt: Small commented dictionary on politics in Japan . Tectum Verlag, Marburg 2003, ISBN 978-3-8288-8580-6 , p. 70.
