Tadatomo Yoshida

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Tadatomo Yoshida (2017)

Tadatomo Yoshida ( Japanese 吉田 忠 智 , Yoshida Tadatomo ; born March 7, 1956 in Usuki , Ōita Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician and since 2019 has been a member of the Sangiin for the second time proportional representation for the Social Democratic Party (SDP). He was party chairman from 2013 to 2018 and has been general secretary since 2020.

Life

Yoshida became a prefectural official in Ōita in 1979 after graduating from the agricultural faculty of Kyushu University . In the public service union of the prefecture ( Ōita-kenshokurō ), a member association of the Jichirō , he was from 1991 to 1994 general secretary (shokichō) . In 2000 he left the prefecture administration and ran successfully for the prefectural parliament in a two-mandate by-election in the constituency of Ōita city . He was re-elected in the 2003 and 2007 regular elections . In 2008 he became general secretary of the Kenmin Club ("Prefectural Citizens Club "), which included MPs close to the DPJ and SDP.

In April 2010, Yoshida resigned to switch to national politics. In the 2010 Sangiin election he ran for proportional representation for the SDP and was elected second behind party leader Mizuho Fukushima with around 131,000 votes . In 2013 he became chairman of the SDP's political committee . After Fukushima's resignation, he ran in the primary election for party chairmanship and clearly prevailed against the local politician Taiga Ishikawa. He formally took office at the National Conference of Delegates (zenkoku daihyōsha kaigi) on October 26, 2013.

In the 2016 Sangiin election , Yoshida received 153,197 votes, which was again enough for second place; but since the Social Democratic Party received fewer proportional votes and won only one proportional representation, Yoshida lost his seat. He initially announced his resignation from the party chairmanship, but later remained in office at the insistence of the party executive. In January 2018, taking into account the unsuccessful lower house election in 2017, he finally resigned and was replaced by Seiji Mataichi the following month .

He ran again in the 2019 Sangiin election and this time won the only SDP seat with 149,287 votes and around 50,000 votes ahead of Mio Nakamura, former prefectural member of parliament in Okinawa. In February 2020 he was appointed general secretary by Fukushima, which again became party leader after Mataichi's withdrawal.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prefecture Präita, Election Oversight Commission: 県 議会 議員 補 欠 選 挙 （平 成 元年 以降） (“By-elections to the prefecture parliament since 1989”) (PDF; 86 kB)
  2. ↑ 社民党 新 党 首 に 吉田 氏 を 選出 . (No longer available online.) In: MSN / Sankei News. October 14, 2013, archived from the original on October 15, 2013 ; accessed on October 15, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Yomiuri Shimbun : Sangiin 2016 election results, proportional representation, SDP
  4. ↑ 社民党 大会 始 ま る 幹事 長 に 吉川 元氏 選出 の 見 通 し . In: Asahi Shimbun . February 24, 2018. Retrieved February 25, 2018 (Japanese).
  5. ↑ 立憲 と の 合流 、 慎重 判断 党 勢 拡 大 に 意欲 - 福島 社民党 首 . In: Jiji Tsūshinsha . February 23, 2020, accessed February 23, 2020 (Japanese).
personal data
SURNAME Yoshida, Tadatomo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 吉 田忠智 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Usuki , Oita Prefecture