New party Daichi
| Shinto Daichi Shin-Minshu | |||
| Parteivorsitz (Daihyō) | Muneo Suzuki | ||
| founding | 2005/28. December 2011 | ||
| Headquarters | 17-2-1205 Minami-1-jō Nishi-5-chōme, Chūō-ku , Sapporo , Hokkaidō | ||
| MPs in the Shūgiin | 1 of 475 (January 2017) | ||
| MPs in the Sangiin | 0 of 242 (January 2017) | ||
| Website | www.daichi.gr.jp | ||
The New Party Daichi ( Japanese 新 党 大地 , Shintō Daichi , dt. About "New Party 'wide country"; Eng. New party DAICHI ) is a regional political party active in Japan's northernmost prefecture Hokkaidō or, in the legal sense, a "political Association ”( seiji dantai ; see Political Parties in Japan - you can belong to one party and to any number of political associations at the same time). With Takako Suzuki , daughter of party chairman Muneo Suzuki , she has a member of the national parliament, she is also represented in the prefectural parliament and several local parliaments in Hokkaidō.
As a regional one-man party
The New Daichi Party was founded by former LDP MP Muneo Suzuki from Hokkaidō, who was its party leader and, after the general election in 2005, its only member of the lower house . According to the 2005 state party funding report, it had 1,490 members.
Suzuki, deputy chief secretary of the cabinet under Prime Minister Keizō Obuchi , had to leave the LDP in 2002 after a corruption scandal involving the House of Russian-Japanese Friendship (nicknamed "Muneo House"). In 2005 he founded the Shinto Daichi. She turns against neoliberal economic policy, and advocates the autonomy of Hokkaidō and the rights of the Ainu . In the 2007 upper house election , the historian and Ainu activist Kaori Tahara was the candidate of the New Daichi Party for Hokkaidō, which, however, was not elected despite the support of the Democrats and the New People's Party . In the 2009 general election , Suzuki was able to hold its seat through the Hokkaidō proportional representation block . He joined the parliamentary group of the Democratic Party after the election.
In 2010, Suzuki's conviction for the bribery scandals was finally upheld by the Supreme Court and he entered custody in December 2010. Takahiro Asano replaced him in parliament, but Suzuki remained party chairman. After a year, Suzuki was paroled in December 2011.
Advance into national politics in 2011/12
In December 2011, when several Democrats resigned from the party and founded the Shinto Kizuna in view of the VAT hike sought by party chairman Yoshihiko Noda , the New Daichi Party was also reorganized. Together with several former democrats she founded Daichi - True Democratic Party ( 大地 ・ 真 民主党 , Daichi - Shin-Minshutō ). A few days later, the name change to Shinto Daichi - Shin-Minshu ( Japanese 新 党 大地 ・ 真 民主 , "New Daichi Party - True Democrats" or "... Democracy") was submitted to the Sōmushō .
Since 2012
In January 2012 Asano dissolved the faction community with the Democrats, the party formed its own faction, but initially voted with the government majority. She later took an opposition to the Noda cabinet. In the fall of 2011, the party was renamed Shinto Daichi again. In the general election in 2012 it cooperated with Ichirō Ozawa's Future Party: Daichi nominated only in Hokkaido candidates in the rest of the country, it supported the candidates of the future party. She won a proportional representation in the Hokkaidō block, which Tomohiro Ishikawa initially took. In 2013 he resigned and was replaced by Takako Suzuki, Muneo Suzuki's daughter, as a successor. In the common election strategy of the opposition in the 2014 general election , Suzuki ran as a candidate for the Democratic Party and was re-elected; the New Daichi Party did not nominate any independent candidates.
About the emerging "united front" strategy of the Democrats with the Communists for the lower house by-election in the constituency of Hokkaidō 5 in April 2016, the New Daichi Party fell out with the Democrats. Takako Suzuki left the Democratic Party and parliamentary group and joined the LDP parliamentary group in autumn 2016.
Web links
- Official Website (Japanese)
