New Conservative Party

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The New Conservative Party ( Japanese 保守 新 党 , Hoshu Shintō , English New Conservative Party , NCP ) was a conservative political party in Japan that was dissolved in November 2003 .

The Conservative Party

In April 2000, left the Liberal Party of Ichiro Ozawa after a few months, the government coalition with the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) again. However, 26 of the 50 liberals in parliament wanted to continue working together, including Transport Minister Toshihiro Nikai , Secretary General Takeshi Noda and former Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu . They decided to found the Conservative Party ( 保守党 , Hoshu-tō ) for the upcoming elections .

In the following general election in June 2000 , the Conservative Party won only seven seats, while the Liberal Party received 22. The government coalition with the LDP was nevertheless continued. In the upper house elections in July 2001, the Conservative Party again performed poorly with only one seat (four were not up for election).

Accessions and dissolution

In December 2002, Hiroshi Kumagai and three other MPs left the Democratic Party and announced their intention to join the Conservative Party. Together they founded the New Conservative Party, with part of the old Conservative Party around the chairman Takeshi Noda and Yuriko Koike not participating in the re-establishment, but instead joining the LDP.

In the general election in November 2003 , the New Conservative Party only got four seats and lost five, including the mandate of the new party leader Kumagai. Thereupon Prime Minister Jun'ichirō Koizumi offered the party to join the LDP and negotiated it with General Secretary Nikai. It joined on November 21, 2003, and the New Conservative Party disbanded. Its members founded a new faction in the LDP, the Nikai group .