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Renhō (2013)

Renhō ( Japanese 蓮舫 ; officially Japanese Renhō Murata ( 村田 蓮舫 , Murata Renhō ); originally Chinese  謝 蓮舫 , Pinyin Xie Lianfang , W.-G. Hsieh Lien-fang , Japanese Sha Renhō ; born November 28, 1967 in the Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician of the Constitutional Democratic Party (Rikken Minshutō; English The Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, CDP), former leader of the Democratic Progressive Party (Minshintō; English The Democratic Party, DP), MP in the Sangiin for the Tokyo Prefecture and former Minister. Within the party she belonged to the Democratic (Progress) Party of the Noda group . Before entering politics, Renhō was known as a model and television presenter.

Life

Renhō is the daughter of a Taiwanese merchant and a Japanese mother. She received Japanese citizenship in 1985 and was entered in the name register with the maternal family name as Saitō Renhō ( 斉 藤 蓮舫 ) . She studied public law at Aoyama Gakuin University , graduating in 1990.

During her studies, Renhō began working as a model in advertising and increasingly appearing on television. From 1992 she was a presenter for the television station TBS , from 1993 then for TV Asahi . In the same year she married. In 1995 she went to Beijing to study , and in 1997 she gave birth to two children, Suiran ( 翠蘭 ) and Rin ( 琳 ). In 2000 she returned to TBS as a news presenter.

In the 2004 election , Renhō was elected to Sangiin as a candidate for the Democratic Party of Japan in Tokyo Prefecture (then eight seats, four for election): with 924,643 votes, she achieved the third highest percentage of votes. In the Sangiin elections in 2010 and 2016 - as a candidate for the DP, in which the DPJ was absorbed in May 2016 - Renhō received more than one million votes in Tokyo Prefecture and was clearly re-elected as a member of parliament with the highest percentage of votes.

Renhō gained national political notoriety from 2009 onwards through its committed role in the public hearings of the newly established "Conference on the Renewal of Administration" to review individual budget items. In 2010 she appointed Prime Minister Naoto Kan as the responsible minister to his cabinet , and in January 2011 she was also given responsibility for consumer and food safety. In June 2011, when Environment Minister Ryū Matsumoto was made "Reconstruction Minister " after the Tōhoku earthquake in 2011 , she gave up her ministerial positions and became special advisor to the Prime Minister with the same responsibilities as before . From September 2011 to January 2012, it came under Yoshihiko Noda as Minister for the "renewal of the administration", the fight against falling birth rate, gender equality and civil service reform again in the cabinet back.

In September 2016, Renhō was elected chairman of the Minshintō. She was the first woman to head a major party since Takako Doi , which led what was then the largest opposition party, the Socialist Party of Japan , from 1986 to 1991. In the event of a victory for the Minshintō in the next general election, Renhō could automatically have become head of government. On July 27, 2017, however, she resigned as party leader, citing a lack of trust within the party and the historically poor election result in the 2017 Tokyo prefectural parliamentary election .

On December 26, 2017, Renhō submitted an application to leave the Minshintō and an application to join the Constitutional Democratic Party ( KDP for short ) founded in October of that year by Yukio Edano . The KDP accepted the latter on December 28, while the Minshintō did not approve Renhō's exit until January 10, 2018, which is why they had double party membership during this period. She justified the change of party with the, in her opinion, unclear future of the Minshintō given the partial split in the party in the 2017 general election and criticized the imprecise leadership style of party chairman Kōhei Ōtsuka .

Web links

Commons : Renhō  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mainichi Shimbun , News Select, DPJ factions: Noda group ( Memento from September 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Yomiuri Shimbun : Sangiin 2010 election results, majority election in prefecture constituencies, Tokyo
  3. ↑ Yomiuri Shimbun : Sangiin 2016 election results, majority election in prefecture electoral districts, Tokyo
  4. ↑ Tages-Anzeiger - For people instead of corporations , accessed on December 4, 2016
  5. ↑ Renho forced to resign as DP lawmakers turned their backs against her. In: Mainichi Shimbun . July 28, 2017, accessed July 28, 2017 .
  6. ↑ a b 民進 ・ 蓮舫 元 代表 が 離 党 届 提出 立憲 民主 に 入党 へ . In: Asahi Shimbun . December 26, 2017. Retrieved January 14, 2018 (Japanese).
  7. ↑ 蓮舫 氏 、 立憲 民主党 入 り が 決定 . (No longer available online.) In: Fuji Television . December 28, 2017, archived from the original on December 29, 2017 ; Retrieved January 14, 2018 (Japanese). 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.fnn-news.com
  8. ↑ 蓮舫 氏 が 脱 「二 重 党籍」 民進党 が 離 党 届 受理 . In: Sankei News . January 10, 2018. Retrieved January 14, 2018 (Japanese).
personal data
SURNAME Renhō
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 蓮舫 (Japanese); Ren Ho; Ren Hou; Lien-fang (Chinese); 謝 蓮舫 (Chinese, maiden name); Hsieh, Lien-fang; Sha Renhō (Chinese birth name, Japanese reading); 村田 蓮舫 (Japanese, official); Murata, Renhō; 斉 藤 蓮舫 (Japanese, official name); Saitō, Renhō
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician, model, TV presenter
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokyo Prefecture , Japan