Liberal Party (Japan, 2016-2019)

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Liberal Party
Jiyūtō
Liberal party
Parteivorsitz (Daihyō) Ichirō Ozawa
Tarō Yamamoto
Deputy Chair fuku-daihyō: Ai Aoki
Secretary General Yūko Mori
PARC Chair Tarō Yamamoto
Parliamentary affairs Yūta Hiyoshi
Group chairmanship in the Sangiin Yūko Mori
founding November 27, 2012 (as Nippon Mirai no Tō )
(renamed Seikatsu no Tō December 27, 2012)
(renamed Jiyūtō in October 2016)
resolution April 26, 2019
Headquarters 4-5-6 Kōjimachi , Chiyoda District , Tokyo Prefecture
MPs in the Shūgiin
3/465
(at merger)
MPs in the Sangiin
4/242
(at merger)
Government grants 333 million yen (2016 grant)
Minimum age 18 years
Website www.liberalparty.jp

The Liberal Party ( Japanese 自由 党 , Jiyū-tō , English Liberal Party , LP ) was a political party in Japan . The party's goals included phasing out nuclear power, strengthening domestic consumption, and reforming decentralization. She rejected further VAT increases and Japan's participation in the trans-Pacific free trade agreement TPP , as negotiated by the Democratic Party and Liberal Democratic Party in the government.

On April 26, 2019, the party decided to merge into the Democratic People's Party , with which it had already formed factional communities in both chambers of the national parliament a few months earlier.

history

It originated as Seikatsu no Tō ( 生活 の 党 , dt. About "Party of Life", whereby seikatsu denotes everyday life, possibly with an economic connotation; engl. The People's Life Party ) in December 2012, when the future party (engl. Tomorrow Party , TPJ ) split again after the 2012 general election, which was devastating for them . The majority of the remaining members of the, especially the followers of Ichirō Ozawa , who had belonged to the Kokumin no Seikatsu ga Daiichi ( People's Life First ) until November 2012 , gathered in the Seikatsu no Tō - technically this was not a start-up, but one Renaming: the Seikatsu no Tō retained the party status, financing, etc. of the future party. It initially consisted of 15 national MPs, seven in the lower house and eight in the upper house . The party chairmanship was initially taken over by the Upper House MP Yūko Mori , for whom the MPs of the Future Party had also voted in the election of the Prime Minister on December 26, 2012. But she resigned in January 2013 and was replaced by Ichirō Ozawa.

In the parliamentary elections in 2013 and 2014, the party waived nationwide nominations. In the 2013 upper house elections , she lost all six eligible MPs (two were not eligible). In the 2014 general election, in the 2014 nomination, she again cooperated implicitly with the Democratic Party and its opposition allies as Ozawa ( 「生 き 残 れ る よ う な 道 を 選 び な さ い。」 , for example: “Please choose the path that you [the election] survive lets. ”) the MPs Katsumasa Suzuki (Tōkai) and Yasuko Komiyama (South Kantō) left the party without resistance to run again as Democrats. The Seikatsu no Tō was able to hold two of the five seats in the lower house at the beginning of the election campaign: In Iwate, Ozawa won his 16th consecutive election and in Okinawa, Denny Tamaki was the "united front" candidate of the base opponents (explicitly supported by the KPJ, SDP, Shadaitō, Green Party and unopposed bourgeois opposition) win constituency 3 against government candidate Natsumi Higa. Shortly after the general election, the House of Lords Tarō Yamamoto joined the party in December 2014 and took the name Seikatsu no tō to Yamamoto Tarō to nakamatachi ( 生活 の 党 と 山 本 太郎 と な か ま た ち , dt. About "Party of Life and Tarō Yamamoto and Friends “; English The People's Life Party & Taro Yamamoto and Friends ), often referred to as Seikatsu no Tō by their original name . Ozawa and Yamamoto have shared the chairmanship since January 2015.

In the upper house election 2016 , the Seikatsu no Tō won nominally only one proportional representation, even if Yūko Mori now won a seat in Niigata again as an "independent" opposition candidate. In addition, the victorious “independent” opposition candidate in Iwate, Ozawa's longtime secretary Eiji Kidoguchi , joined the party. Subsequently, the Seikatsu no Tō formed with the Social Democratic Party the joint upper house faction Kibō no Kai (Seikatsu / Shamin) ( 「希望 の 会 (生活 ・ 社 民) , for example" Assembly of Hope (Seikatsu / SDP) ", engl. Hope Coalition (Kibou) .

In October 2016, the party adopted its current name. The name and logo tie in with Ozawa's former Liberal Party .

The de facto split in the Democratic Progressive Party before the 2017 general election also affected the planned candidates for the Liberals, who, with the exception of the two incumbents, joined the Kibō no Tō or the Constitutional Democratic Party (KDP). The Liberal Party then formally did not nominate any candidates for the election; but her two MPs, Ozawa and Tamaki, remained in the party and were re-elected without a party nomination.

General Secretary Tamaki resigned from the party in September 2018 and ran successfully in the gubernatorial election in Okinawa . Governor Takeshi Onaga had died in August of that year and shortly before his death had named Tamaki as a preferred candidate for his successor. The office of general secretary then took over the upper house representative Yūko Mori; in addition, the previous KDP MP Yūta Hiyoshi joined the Liberal Party so that it could maintain its faction in the lower house. In January 2019, the Liberal Party and the Democratic People's Party (DVP) agreed to form a common parliamentary group in the lower and upper houses. Ozawa had initially planned a merger with the KDP to fully unify the opposition parties, but the latter refused.

MPs

National parliament

(As of April 2019)

  • in the lower house as part of the community group Kokumin Minshutō / Mushozoku Club ("Democratic People's Party / Independent Club")
  • in the upper house as part of the community group Kokumin Minshutō / Shinryokufūkai ("Democratic People's Party / New Ryokufūkai")
    • Class from 2016 (to 2022 )
      • Yūko Mori (Niigata Prefecture, 3rd term; previously LP → DPJ → Seikatsu → Mirai) [Mori ran for 2016 as an “independent” unity candidate of the opposition parties without being nominated, but was a member of Seikatsu no Tō at the time of the election. She initially remained non-attached after the election, but joined the LP-SDP faction Kibō no kai in November 2016. ]
      • Ai Aoki (national proportional representation, 2nd term, also three in the lower house; previously LP → DPJ → Seikatsu → Mirai)
      • Eiji Kidoguchi (Iwate Prefecture, 1st term; previously LP → DPJ → non-party)
    • Class from 2013 (to 2019 )

Subnational

In 2015, after the prefectural parliamentary elections in Ozawa's homeland (and Seikatsu stronghold) Iwate, the six Seikatsu MPs again formed a joint parliamentary group with five Democrats and several non-party members and remained stronger than the LDP despite electoral losses.

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