Democratic Progressive Party (Japan)

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Democratic Progressive Party
Minshinto
The Democratic Party ("Democratic Party")
Parteivorsitz (Daihyō) Kōhei Ōtsuka
Deputy Chair Kazuhiro Haraguchi
Masao Kobayashi
Secretary General Teruhiko Mashiko
PARC Chair Shin'ya Adachi
Parliamentary affairs Hirofumi Hirano
Group chairmanship in the Sangiin Toshio Ogawa
founding March 27, 2016
Place of foundation Tokyo
resolution May 7, 2018
Headquarters Nagatacho , Chiyoda District , Tokyo Prefecture
Members 242,907 (2016)
Colours) blue
MPs in the Shūgiin
14/465

(November 2017)
MPs in the Sangiin
45/242
(October 2017)
Government grants 8.7 billion yen (2017)
Number of members 242,907 (2016)
Minimum age 18 years
Website minshin.or.jp

The Democratic Progressive Party ( Japanese 民進党 , Minshintō ; English The Democratic Party , DP , German "Democratic Party") was a political party in Japan . It was created in March 2016 from the union of the Democratic Party (English Democratic Party of Japan ) and Ishin no Tō ( "Party of Reformation / Restoration"; English Japan Innovation Party ). and merged in May 2018 with the Kibō no Tō ("Party of Hope"; English The Party of Hope ) to form the People's Democratic Party (English Democratic Party For the People ). It saw itself as a left-wing liberal catch-all party and was critical of Abenomics and an amendment to Article 9 of the Japanese constitution . Behind the ruling Liberal Democratic Party , it was the largest opposition party until the 2017 general election, but since then has only been represented in the lower house by 14 members who were elected without a party nomination and no longer all meet in one parliamentary group. In the national upper house and in many prefectural and municipal councils she was still the strongest opposition party.

history

founding

On February 24, 2016, the Democratic Party and the Ishin no Tō announced that they would decide to unite the parties at a joint meeting on March 27, 2016 and thus create a new opposition party Minshintō (English initially provisional Democratic Innovation Party , DIP , German “ Democratic Innovation Party ”), which will run in the elections in summer 2016. On March 18, the two parties agreed on the English self-name The Democratic Party .

The party was founded on March 27, 2016. At that time she was represented in the upper and lower houses with a total of 146 seats.

On September 15, 2016, the previous chairman Katsuya Okada was replaced by Renhō Murata . She sat down with a total of 503 out of 849 points - 80 out of 147 votes among deputies in the national parliament, 50 out of 118 votes among established candidates for the national parliament, 847 out of 1,393 votes among deputies in prefectural and municipal parliaments, 59,539 out of 96,181 votes among members and registered Supporters - against their two competitors Seiji Maehara (230 points) and Yūichirō Tamaki (116 points).

On July 25, 2017, Secretary General Yoshihiko Noda resigned from his post in light of the historic defeat of the Minshinto in the 2017 Tokyo prefectural parliamentary election. Two days later, party leader Renhō Murata resigned due to a lack of trust within the party. The election of the new chairman took place on September 1, 2017, and Seiji Maehara was elected chairman. He prevailed against his competitor Yukio Edano (332 points) with 502 of 834 points . On September 5, Atsushi shima took over the office of general secretary .

Cooperation with the Kibō no Tō

On September 28, 2017, the chairman Maehara announced after consultation with the Tokyo governor and party chairman of the Kibō no Tō Yuriko Koike that the Minshintō would not put up its own candidates for the Shūgiin election 2017 and assured the Minshintō members that they would Support candidacy for the Kibō no Tō. She had already lost a number of MPs to them. After Koike had pointed out several times that they would not accept all supporters of the Minshinto and examine every candidate for its political position, several left-wing Minshinto members announced that they did not want to run for the Koikes party. These included, for example, the former Prime Ministers Naoto Kan and Yoshihiko Noda as well as the deputy chairman of the Minshinto, Yukio Edano . As a result, Edano founded the liberal - minded Constitutional Democratic Party ( KDP for short ; 立憲 民主党 Rikken Minshutō ; English The Constituional Democratic Party of Japan ) as an alternative to Kibō no Tō . The Kibō no Tō stated with regard to the selection process for candidates that, among other things, they would not accept persons who held high offices in the state organs in the past . As a result, Noda, former Foreign and Deputy Prime Minister Katsuya Okada and former Treasury Secretary Jun Azumi announced that they would run for independence while Kan joined the KDP. Maehara herself ran for Independent and was re-elected as MP for another term. As announced, he joined the Kibo faction in the first meeting.

13 MPs in the new lower house, most of them from the Democratic Progressive Party, submitted the establishment of the Mushozoku no Kai faction to the secretariat of the House of Representatives on October 26, 2017, shortly before the constituent session .

On October 30, 2017, Maehara resigned from his post in the face of the defeat of the Kibō no Tō. One day later, the House of Representative Kōhei Ōtsuka was elected as his successor without an opposing candidate , whose term of office was initially set for the period until the end of September 2018. Teruhiko Mashiko took over the office of General Secretary on November 8, 2017 .

resolution

Since his appointment as party chairman, Ōtsuka had expressed the desire for a new party to unite the fragmented opposition. In April 2018, these plans were concretized and Ōtsuka was able to convince the Kibō chairman Yūichirō Tamaki to unite their parties, but not Edano's KDP and Ichirō Ozawa's Liberal Party . Also within the Minshintō there were differences of opinion about the approach of Ōtsuka; many experienced members such as Yoshihiko Noda, Katsuya Okada and Jun Azumi then left the party; a total of 40% of the DFP MPs rejected a merger with the Kibō no Tō and announced that they would leave the party. On May 7, 2018, the founding convention of the new " People's Democratic Party " ( 国民 民主党 Kokumin Minshutō ; English Democratic Party For the People ) and thus the dissolution of the Minshintō took place. Ultimately, due to internal disputes within the parties, only 62 MPs joined the new party, while a complete merger of Minshintō and Kibō would have resulted in a total of 107 MPs and the People's Democratic Party would have replaced the KDP (74 MPs) as the largest opposition party .

Management structure

Party leader

Main article: Election of the chairman of the Japanese People's Democratic Party

Similar to the LDP, the chairman was formally elected by MPs, party members and supporters, but in most cases only determined by the national MPs. The electoral process was taken over by the Democratic Party.

List of party leaders

Party executive

In addition to the party chairman, important positions on the party executive committee were the general secretary, the chairman of the political research committee ( PARC for short ) and the chairman of the parliamentary affairs committee ( 国会 対 策 委員会 Kokkai Taisaku Iinkai , 国 対 Kokutai for short ).

List of General Secretaries
List of PARC chairs
List of Kokutai chairmen

The board also included the vice - chairperson ( fuku-daihyō ), the chairman of the campaign committee, the deputy general secretary ( kanjichō daikō ) and the deputy general secretary ( kanjichō dairi ). In addition, there was the post of "permanent advisor" ( jōnin komon ).

Election results

National

Election victories as the strongest party underlined , absolute majorities in bold .

year Lower House election results Upper house election results House of Lords Composition
Candidates Majority vote Proportional representation
Total mandates		 Candidates Majority vote Proportional representation
Total mandates
Share of votes Mandates Share of votes Mandates Share of votes Mandates Share of votes Mandates
When a party is founded 96/475 60/242
2016 55 25.1% 21/73 21.0% 11/48 32/121 49/242

Prefectures

The first prefectural parliamentary election the party contested was in Okinawa on June 5, 2016 , where the Democratic Party had already become an insignificant force in the prefectural parliament during its reign at the national level; the Minshintō presented a candidate in 2016 who was unsuccessful.

In the prefectural parliamentary election in Tokyo 2017 , the party received its historically worst result in Tokyo and was represented with only 5 of the 127 seats in the prefectural parliament.

Communities

Nationwide, the Minshintō had 1586 voting representatives from sub-national parliaments (47 prefectural parliaments with over 2,600 members, 1,741 municipal parliaments with over 30,000 members) in the primary elections in September 2016.

Web links

Individual evidence

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