New progress party

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New progress party
Shinshinto
New Frontier Party
Party presidency ( tōshu) Ichirō Ozawa
Secretary General Takeo Nishioka
Executive Board Chair Takeshi Noda
PARC Chair Takenori Kanzaki
Parliamentary affairs Kansei Nakano
Group chairmanship in the Sangiin Chikage Ōgi
founding December 10, 1994
resolution December 27, 1997
Headquarters 2-2-12 Akasaka , Minato , Tokyo Prefecture
MPs in the Shūgiin
156/500
(October 1996)
MPs in the Sangiin
56/252
(July 1995)
Government grants 9.3 billion yen (1997)

The New Progressive Party ( Japanese 新 進 党 Shinshintō ; English New Frontier Party , NFP ) was a political party in Japan from 1994 to 1997 and during this time the second largest party after the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).

history

The Shinshintō was created in 1994 as a bundling of opposition forces after a joint government without the LDP had failed after a short time. The founding party convention took place on December 10, 1994 and united the Renewal Party , the House of Commons of the recently split Kōmeitō (organized in the Kōmeishintō ( 公 明 新 党 )), the New Japan Party , the Democratic Socialist Party and the Liberal Reform Alliance ( 自由 改革連 合 Jiyū Kaikaku Rengō ), an association of conservative factions in the lower house.

Party leader of the Shinshinto was the former Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu , who had left the LDP in June 1994 and was chairman of the Liberal Reform Association. General Secretary was Ichirō Ozawa (previously General Secretary of the Renewal Party); the deputy party chairmen were Tsutomu Hata , Takashi Yonezawa and Kōshirō Ishida .

The first major popularity test for the Shinshinto were the upper house elections in 1995 . The Shinshintō received 40 mandates (17 of its MPs were not eligible for election) and it thus maintained its status as the strongest opposition party with a total of 57 MPs.

In December 1995 Ichirō Ozawa was elected party chairman. In the following general election in 1996 , the first under the new electoral law, the party received 156 seats and the governing coalition of the LDP, Social Democrats and Sakigake was only able to maintain its majority.

After that, internal disputes began to gradually resolve the Shinshintō. In December 1996, Tsutomu Hata and Keiwa Okuda left the party, and six months later, in June 1997, Morihiro Hosokawa left . The dispute over the law on party financing finally led to the end of 1997 for the dissolution of the Shinshinto. Many of its members joined the Democratic Party (DPJ), supporters of party leader Ozawa organized in the Liberal Party , and some returned to the LDP.

Some prefectural associations continued to exist and later joined one of the two major parties. The Shinshin Ishikawa joined the prefectural association of the Democratic Party in 2009, but continued to exist as a faction in the prefectural parliament until 2015.

literature

  • Manfred Pohl: The political parties , in: Country report Japan , Manfred Pohl / Hans Jürgen Mayer (ed.), BpB 1998, Bonn, p. 95ff .: Shinshintō : a new party with a built-in split mechanism.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. Rina Sanchome: State funding of political parties in Japan. Books on Demand 2004. ISBN 3-8334-0609-7 , p. 90