Sumio Mabuchi

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Sumio Mabuchi (2008)

Sumio Mabuchi ( Japanese 馬 淵 澄 夫 , Mabuchi Sumio ; born August 23, 1960 in Nara , Nara prefecture ) is a Japanese politician ( DPJ → DFP → Kibō → independent → DVP ), member of the Shūgiin (House of Representatives), the lower house of Kokkai ( National Parliament), for the Kinki proportional representation bloc and former Minister of Transport .

Life

Mabuchi studied civil engineering at the State University of Yokohama and after graduating in 1982 worked for Mitsui Kensetsu , from 1990 for the office and computer accessories manufacturer General KK.In the Shūgiin election in 2000 , Mabuchi ran for the Democratic Party in his home constituency of Nara 1 , but was defeated by Masahiro Morioka ( LDP ). In the second attempt he was able to win the constituency in 2003 and has since been re-elected four times.

In the Shūgiin, Mabuchi was a member of the budget and cabinet committee, in the Democratic Party chairman of the Nara prefecture association and deputy chairman of the political research council . In 2009 Mabuchi became State Secretary ( Fuku-daijin ; "Vice Minister") in the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and, in this role, played a key role in the draft law for the abolition of tolls on parts of the motorway network. In September 2010 he was appointed by Naoto Kan to succeed Seiji Maehara as minister in charge of the Kan cabinet and also took over responsibility for Okinawa and the " Northern Territories ". In November 2010, the opposition majority in Sangiin passed a non-binding motion of no confidence ( monseki ketsugi ) against Mabuchi. In a cabinet reshuffle in January 2011 , Naoto Kan replaced him with Akihiro Ōhata .

From September 2016 to 2017, Mabuchi headed the campaign headquarters of the Democratic Progressive Party, which was founded in spring 2016 .

In the 2017 Shūgiin election , Mabuchi ran for the Kibō no Tō of Yuriko Koike , but was defeated by the Liberal Democrat Shigeki Kobayashi (40.8%) with a sekihairitsu with 39.7% of the votes in the constituency Nara 1, which was enlarged by the city of Ikoma in 2017 of 97.2% not just enough to win one of the three Kibo seats in the proportional representation in Kinki, where Mabuchi only reached fourth place on the Kibo list. This made him the first potential Kibō successor in Kinki, and after Shinji Tarutoko stepped down in January 2019 for a by-election candidate for a majority seat in Osaka, Mabuchi returned to the House of Representatives in February 2019 as a non-attached member. In September 2019 he joined the new parliamentary group of the Constitutional Democratic Party and the Democratic People's Party (DVP) as a non -party . In the long term, he intends to merge both parties and thus restore the Democratic Party. Mabuchi joined the DVP in June 2020.

Web links

Commons : Sumio Mabuchi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Yomiuri Shimbun : Election results Shūgiin 2017, majority election Nara & proportional representation Kinki
  2. ↑ 青山 ・ 馬 淵 氏 、 繰 り 上 げ 当選 当選 決定 衆院 比例 東海 ・ 近畿 . In: nikkei.com . February 4, 2019, Retrieved February 6, 2019 (Japanese).
  3. ↑ 馬 淵 元 国 交 相 ら 、 野 党 統一 会 派 へ 旧 民主 議員 、 続 々 合流 . In: Asahi Shimbun . September 25, 2019. Retrieved November 17, 2019 (Japanese).
  4. ↑ 国民 、 馬 淵 氏 の 入党 承認 玉 木 代表 「選 挙 で 力 を」 . In: Sankei Shimbun . June 2, 2020, accessed June 4, 2020 (Japanese).
personal data
SURNAME Mabuchi, Sumio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 馬 淵 澄 夫 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH 23rd August 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Nara , Nara Prefecture