New Socialist Party
| New Socialist Party | |||
| Shinshakaitō | |||
| New Socialist Party | |||
| Parteivorsitz (iinchō) | Kimiko Kurihara | ||
| Secretary General | Yoshihiro Matsue | ||
| founding | January / March 1996 | ||
| Headquarters | 7-9 Nihombashi -Tomizawachō, Chūō , Tokyo Prefecture | ||
| MPs in the Shūgiin |
0/465 |
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| MPs in the Sangiin |
0/245 |
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| Government grants | 0 ("political group") | ||
| Website | www.sinsyakai.or.jp | ||
The New Socialist Party ( Japanese 新 社会 党 , Shinshakaitō , English New Socialist Party ) is a small political party in Japan , which emerged as a left-wing split in 1996 when the Socialist Party of Japan (SPJ) was transformed into the Social Democratic Party (SDP). Two members of the House of Representatives (lower house) and three in the council house (upper house) took part in the establishment. It has not been represented in the national parliament since the elections in 1996 and 1998 , but has a mayor in some prefectural parliaments and at the municipal level as well as nationwide (in the village of Chōsei in Chiba Prefecture ).
The Socialist Party had already weakened some of its radical positions in the 1980s. In the anti-LDP coalition under Morihiro Hosokawa and the grand coalition with the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in the Murayama cabinet , she was forced to compromise from 1993 and lost members and supporters to other parties. Many areas such as security policy - the commitment to self-defense forces and the security treaty - the introduction of single- seat constituencies in the lower house , which makes it practically impossible for smaller parties to win direct seats, and energy policy alienated supporters of the traditional opposition line of the SPJ's left wing in particular. On January 1, 1996 Osamu Yatabe left the party with four supporters in parliament and founded the New Socialist Party, initially under the name Shinshakaitō - Heiwa Rengō ( 新 社会 党 ・ 平和 連 合 , "New Socialist Party - Peace League"). Four days later, the SPJ party leader Tomiichi Murayama announced his resignation as prime minister, after which the SPJ was renamed the Social Democratic Party a few days later. The SDP initially continued the coalition with the LDP as a small partner under Ryūtarō Hashimoto and lost more members, especially to the Democratic Party founded in the same year . The New Socialist Party was unable to benefit from the “bleeding out” of the SDP, and in the October elections it lost all of its representation in the House of Commons, Tatsukuni Komori and Hiromi Okazaki . Nationwide, it received less than two percent of the votes in the proportional representation, the highest proportions in the proportional representation blocks Hokkaidō (3.8%) and Chūgoku (3.4%). In 1998, the three upper house members of the NSP Osamu Yatabe ( Ibaraki ), Kimiko Kurihara ( Hiroshima ) and Tetsuo Yamaguchi (proportional representation) were voted out. Even in later national elections, the New Socialist Party could not achieve any success. For the Sangiin election in 2007 , she joined the “green table” in the electoral alliance 9-jō Net (“Network Article 9 ”) in the proportional representation, which received only 0.46% of the votes nationwide. In the 2009 and 2010 elections , she refrained from nationwide nominations.
The party's core demands include the preservation of the “peace constitution” , demilitarized neutrality and a “democratic, new socialism” ( 民主 的 な 新 し い 社会主義 , minshu-teki na atarashii shakai-shugi ), which is differentiated from socialism based on the Soviet model and from the “social democracy, which approves the use of […] military force” ( … 軍事 力 の 行使 を 是 認 す る 社会 民主主義 ).
The party chairmanship was taken over by Osamu Yatabe in 2002 by Tatsukuni Komori and then by Kimiko Kurihara in 2005.
Individual evidence
- ↑ New Socialist Party: Members of Parliament ( Memento of the original from January 29, 2011 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.
- ↑ New Socialist Party Chiba: MPs in the local authorities ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ 新 社会 党 綱領 「２１ 世紀 宣言」 (“Program of the New Socialist Party 'Manifesto for the 21st Century'”) ( Memento of the original from January 29, 2011 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.
