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 |
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MPs in the Sangiin |
2/245 |
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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 | ||||||||||
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Candidates | Majority vote | Proportional representation | Total mandates |
Candidates | Majority vote | Proportional representation | Total mandates |
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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)
- Class from 2019 (mandate until 2025)
Web links
- Reiwa Shinsengumi Official Website (Japanese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ reiwa-shinsengumi.com - 参議院 議員 (Japanese), accessed August 21, 2019
- ↑ reiwa-shinsengumi.com - 政策 (Japanese), accessed August 21, 2019
- ↑ Citizen campaigns seek to increase voter turnout in Upper House election. In: The Japan Times . July 20, 2019, accessed on August 21, 2019 .
- ↑ Is populism finally coming to Japan? In: The Japan Times . August 2, 2019, accessed on August 21, 2019 .
- ↑ 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 .
- ↑ nhk.or.jp - れ い わ 新 選 組 (Japanese), accessed August 21, 2019
- ↑ 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 .