Minna no Tō
| Minna no Tō | |||
| Your party | |||
| Parteivorsitz (Daihyō) | Keiichirō Asao | ||
| Secretary General | Ken'ichi Mizuno | ||
| founding | August 8, 2009 | ||
| resolution | November 28, 2014 | ||
| Headquarters | 2–12 Hayabusachō , Chiyoda , Tokyo Prefecture | ||
| MPs in the Shūgiin |
9/480 |
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| MPs in the Sangiin |
13/242 |
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| Government grants | 2.01 billion yen (2014) | ||
| Website | www.your-party.jp | ||
The Minna no Tō ( Japanese み ん な の 党 , German “Party of all” or “Everyone's Party”; English Your Party ) was a political party in Japan . It was founded in August 2009 by Yoshimi Watanabe (formerly LDP ) and three other MPs. Among other things, the party calls for reforms of the ministerial bureaucracy, public finances and financial relations between the central state and prefectures.
Differences developed between founding chairman Watanabe and general secretary Kenji Eda about the party's positioning vis-à-vis the coalition under Prime Minister Shinzō Abe , which has been in power since 2012 , including support for Abe's state secret law. In August 2013, Eda was replaced as General Secretary by Keiichirō Asao . At the end of 2013, 15 members of the national parliament around Eda left the party and founded the Yui no Tō , which wanted to cooperate with other opposition parties and later merged with the Nippon Ishin no Kai . Watanabe resigned as party chairman in April 2014 after a scandal over unreported loans from a cosmetics manager, with Keiichirō Asao succeeding him without a candidate. In the preparations for the 2014 Shūgiin election , the Minna no Tō finally broke up: At the party congress on November 19, 2014 for the directional decision, the resolution was resolved on November 28, 2014.
Election results
In its short history, the Minna no Tō was relatively successful in elections: In the Shūgiin election in 2009, she was able to defend her number of seats and even won an additional seat, in the Sangiin election in 2010 she surpassed the Kōmeitō as the third strongest party and established itself in the unified regional elections 2011 in several prefectural parliaments.
National
| year | Lower House election results | Upper house election results | House of Lords composition |
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| Candidates | Direct dial | Proportional representation | Total mandates |
Candidates | Direct dial | Proportional representation | Total mandates |
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| Share of votes | Mandates | Share of votes | Mandates | Share of votes | Mandates | Share of votes | Mandates | ||||||
| When a party is founded | 4/480 | 1/242 | |||||||||||
| 2009 | 15th | 0.8% | 2/300 | 4.2% | 3/180 | 5/480 | |||||||
| 2010 | 44 | 10.2% | 3/73 | 13.6% | 7/48 | 10/121 | 11/242 | ||||||
| 2012 | 69 | 4.7% | 4/300 | 8.7% | 14/180 | 18/480 | |||||||
| 2013 | 34 | 7.8% | 4/73 | 8.9% | 4/48 | 8/121 | 18/242 | ||||||
Prefecture level
In the 41 parliamentary elections, which were carried out in the regional elections in 2011 , candidates of the Minna no Tō won 3.4% of the vote and moved into several prefectural parliaments, including in Watanabe's home prefecture Tochigi as the second largest party.
Local level
The Minna no Tō has more than 200 members in local parliaments, mainly in independent cities and special districts (Tokyo).
Web links
- Official Website (Japanese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sōmushō , April 1, 2014: 平 成 26 年分 政党 交付 金 の 交付 決定
- ↑ み ん な の 党: 解 党 を 決定 路線 対 立 で 「埋 め が た い 溝」 . (No longer available online.) In: Mainichi Shimbun. November 19, 2014, archived from the original on November 29, 2014 ; Retrieved December 14, 2014 (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.
