New Japan Party

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New Japan Party
Shinto Nippon
New Party Nippon
Parteivorsitz (Daihyō) Yasuo Tanaka
founding 2005
Headquarters 1-7-11 Hirakawachō , Chiyoda , Tokyo Prefecture
MPs in the Shūgiin
0/480
(December 2010)
MPs in the Sangiin
0/242
(December 2010)
Government grants 136 million yen (2012)
Website www.nippon-dream.com

The New Japan Party ( Japanese 新 党 日本 , Shintō Nippon ) was a small Japanese party founded in 2005 by opponents of post-privatization who had to leave the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) of Prime Minister Jun'ichirō Koizumi . The founding members included three members of the House of Commons and one member of the House of Lords, and the party chairman was Yasuo Tanaka , governor of Nagano Prefecture .

In addition to the New Japan Party, the New People's Party emerged from opponents of post-privatization; The party exclusions led Prime Minister Koizumi to call new elections in order to seek confirmation of his reform course from the electorate and to weaken the new parties by appointing strong candidates, so-called "assassins" (including Takafumi Horie , Yuriko Koike ) set up. The plan worked: The New Party lost two of its three lower house mandates.

A year later, party leader Tanaka lost the Nagano gubernatorial election. He won the only upper house seat for the New Japan Party in the 2007 upper house elections . With three percent of the proportional representation votes, the party secured its legal status as a political party for six years, provided it was represented by at least one member in the national parliament. The party was in the upper house together with the New People's Party and the Shinryokufūkai part of the majority faction of the Democratic Party . The only MP of the New Japan Party, Makoto Taki, left the party in July 2007.

In the 2009 election , Tanaka was able to successfully conquer a lower house in the constituency of ex-minister Tetsuzo Fuyushiba . The successor for Tanaka in the upper house, Makoto Hirayama , belonged to the faction of the Democratic Party, no longer the New Japan Party. In 2010 Tanaka founded a joint parliamentary group with the New People's Party, which he dissolved again in April 2012 when Shizuka Kamei declared that he was leaving the New People's Party. He then positioned himself in opposition to the governing coalition of Democrats and the New People's Party. In the 2012 general election , Tanaka was the party's only candidate in the Hyogo 8 constituency; he was clearly subject to Hiromasa Nakano from the Kōmeitō , who was supported by the LDP and, due to a regional cooperation agreement, also the Nippon Ishin no Kai .

Election results

year Lower House election results Upper house election results
Candidates Direct dial Proportional representation Mandates Candidates Direct dial Proportional representation Mandates
Share of votes Mandates Share of votes Mandates Share of votes Mandates Share of votes Mandates
When founded 3/480 1/242
2005 8th 0.2% 0/300 2.4% 1/180 1/480
2007 3 (no candidates) 3.0% 1/48 1/242
2009 8th 0.3% 1/300 0.7% 0/180 1/480
2010 (no candidates) 0/242
2012 1 0.1% 0/300 (no candidates) 0/480

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. BBC News, September 7, 2005: Koizumi's 'assassins' get set for poll
  2. TIME, September 5, 2005: Koizumi's War
  3. New Party Japan: 新 党 日本 所属 議員 に 関 す る お 知 ら せ ( Memento of the original from February 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.love-nippon.com
  4. 国民 新 と の 統一 会 派 解 消 = 新 党 日本 . In: Jiji Tsūshin . April 6, 2012, Retrieved April 10, 2012 (Japanese).