Shiori Yamao
Shiori Yamao ( Japanese 山 尾 志 桜 里 Yamao Shiori ; born July 24, 1974 in Sendai , Miyagi Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician ( DPJ → DFP → independent → KDP → independent → DVP ) and a member of the Shūgiin , the lower house of the national parliament , for the constituency of Aichi 7 . From March to September 2016, she was PARC chair of the Democratic Progressive Party.
Life
Shiori Yamao was born on July 24, 1974 in Sendai and studied at the Law Faculty of the University of Tokyo until 1999 . In 2002 she passed the first and in 2004 the second legal examination and has since been registered as a public prosecutor . She then worked in this capacity in the Tokyo District Attorney ( 東京 地方 検 察 庁 , Tōkyō chihō kensatsuchō ) and the Chiba District Attorney ( anw 地方 検 察 庁 , Chiba chihō kensatsuchō ). In 2006, she moved to the district prosecutor's Nagoya ( 名古屋地方検察庁 , Nagoya Chiho kensatsuchō ).
Yamao moved into politics in 2007 when the opposition Democratic Party (DPJ) was looking for a candidate for Aichi 7 constituency. She applied for the job and was named DPJ candidate for the constituency in December of that year. In the general election in 2009 , after which the DPJ took over the government for the first time, it sat down with 61.1% against the LDP mandate holder Junji Suzuki (36.5%) and a Kōfuku-jitsugen-tō candidate and moved into the lower house . In 2012 she lost the constituency to Suzuki (Suzuki 42.8%; Yamao 35.9%) and resigned from the House of Commons, until she was in the 2014 election with 46.6% just against Suzuki (44.4%) and one CPY candidates prevailed and returned to parliament.
In March 2016, she joined the Democratic Progressive Party (DFP) , which resulted from the merger of DPJ and Ishin no Tō , and was appointed chairman of the political research council. After the election of Seiji Maehara as party chairman in September 2017, Yamao was initially discussed as general secretary, but after internal party rejection due to Yamao's relatively little political experience, Maehara appointed Atsushi Ōshima as general secretary. Shortly thereafter, the Shūkanbunshun reported on a suspected affair Yamaos with a lawyer, whereupon she announced her departure from the party; she denied the charge.
In the general election in October 2017 , she ran as an independent in her constituency and was re-elected by 834 votes over Suzuki. The Party of Hope , for which the majority of the previous DFP members stood, and the CPJ had given up their own candidates in this constituency. After the election, Yamao joined the faction of the Constitutional Democratic Party (KDP) and joined the party in December of that year. In March 2020, she left the KDP after it had voted in parliament for a proposal drawn up by the government for an amendment to the "Special Measures Act against the New Flu " ( 新型 イ ン フ ル エ ン ザ 等 対 策 特別 措置 法 , Shingata infuruenza-tō taisaku tokubetsu sochi-hō ) had voted against the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan . Yamao criticized the opaque culture of discussion within the KDP and announced that, as independents, he still belonged to the joint faction of the KDP, the Democratic People's Party (DVP) and the Social Democratic Party (SDP). In mid-June 2020, Yamao submitted a party membership application to the DVP, which was approved on July 8.
Web links
- Official Website (Japanese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 立憲 ・ 山 尾 氏 が 離 党 届 提出 「民主主義 の 理解 に ギ ャ ッ プ」 . In: Jiji Tsūshinsha . March 18, 2020, accessed April 3, 2020 (Japanese).
- ↑ 国民 民主 、 山 尾 志 桜 里 氏 の 入党 を 了 承 . In: Asahi Shimbun . July 8, 2020, accessed July 11, 2020 (Japanese).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Yamao, Shiori |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 山 尾 志 桜 里 (Japanese, Kanji); や ま お し お り (Japanese, Hiragana) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 24, 1974 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sendai , Miyagi Prefecture |