Reiwa Shinsengumi

Reiwa Shinsengumi
Parteivorsitz (Daihyō)	Tarō Yamamoto
founding	April 1, 2019
Headquarters	2-11-15 Yotsuya , Shinjuku , Tokyo Prefecture
MPs in the Shūgiin	0/465 (August 2019)
MPs in the Sangiin	2/245 (August 2019)
Website	reiwa-shinsengumi.com

Reiwa Shinsengumi ( Japanese れ い わ 新 選 組 ) is a political party in Japan . It was on April 1, 2019, shortly after the announcement of the government foreign exchange " Reiwa " of the new Emperor Naruhito of taro Yamamoto founded. The party demands, among other things, the abolition of VAT , an immediate nuclear phase-out and a gradual increase in corporate income tax . It is classified as progressive  to left-wing populist .

history

Tarō Yamamoto, who had previously been a member of the House of Lords and co-chair of the Liberal Party , announced his departure from the party on April 10, 2019. He had previously founded a "political group" called Reiwa Shinsengumi ( れ い わ 新 選 組 ; composed of the government motto Reiwa and the Samurai protection force Shinsengumi ). It had become apparent that the Liberal Party would merge with the more conservative People's Democratic Party , which took place on April 26th.

For the 2019 Sangiin election , the Reiwa Shinsengumi ran with nine candidates, none of whom were politicians except for Yamamoto. Special attention was paid to the severely disabled candidates Yasuhiko Funago ( amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ) and Eiko Kimura ( infantile cerebral palsy ), who were also put at the top of the party list through the so-called tokutei-waku ( 特定 枠 , for example “special frame ”). The costly election campaign was financed exclusively through donations: since its foundation in April, the party had received around ¥ 400 million (around € 3.38 million ; price from August 2019). In the election it finally achieved a result of 4.6% of the proportional representation votes and thus fulfilled the legal conditions required for recognition as a political party . The result was sufficient for the election of the two candidates in tokutei-waku , but not for Yamamoto.

With a view to the next House of Commons election , which will take place regularly in 2021, but could be brought forward at any time, Yamamoto announced in August 2019 that it intends to list 100 candidates. As a prerequisite for cooperation with other opposition parties, he named the reduction in VAT to 5% (currently 8%, from October 2019 10%).

Election results

National

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						0/465							1/242
2019							9	0.4%	0/74	4.6%	2/50	2/124	2/245

Member of the National Parliament

Status: August 2019

• House of Lords
  • Class from 2019 (mandate until 2025)
    • Yasuhiko Funago (proportional representation, 1st term)
    • Eiko Kimura (proportional representation, 1st term)

Web links

• Reiwa Shinsengumi Official Website (Japanese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ reiwa-shinsengumi.com - 参議院 議員 (Japanese), accessed August 21, 2019
2. ↑ reiwa-shinsengumi.com - 政策 (Japanese), accessed August 21, 2019
3. ↑ Citizen campaigns seek to increase voter turnout in Upper House election. In: The Japan Times . July 20, 2019, accessed on August 21, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Is populism finally coming to Japan? In: The Japan Times . August 2, 2019, accessed on August 21, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Reiwa Shinsengumi makes splash in Japanese election debut, giving voice to people with disabilities. In: The Japan Times . July 22, 2019, accessed on August 21, 2019 . 
6. ↑ nhk.or.jp - れ い わ 新 選 組 (Japanese), accessed August 21, 2019
7. ↑ Reiwa Shinsengumi chief says fledgling party ready to cooperate with other opposition forces. In: The Japan Times . Jiji Tsūshinsha , August 11, 2019, accessed August 21, 2019 .