Takahiro Yokomichi

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Takahiro Yokomichi ( Japanese 横路 孝 弘 , Yokomichi Takahiro ; born January 3, 1941 in Sapporo , Hokkaidō ) is a former Japanese politician and was a member of the Shūgiin , the lower house of the national parliament, for the 1st constituency of Hokkaidō from 1996 to 2017 . From 1983 to 1995 he was governor of Hokkaidō, from 2005 to 2009 Shūgiin vice-president, then until 2012 - president. From 2016 to 2017 he belonged to the Democratic Progressive Party (English DP), within the party he led the Yokomichi group (officially: 新 政局 懇談 会 , Shin-seikyoku Kondankai ), which originated in the Democratic Party (English DPJ) had and originally consisted mainly of former social democrats or socialists.

Life

Yokomichi is the son of Shūgiin socialist MP and former candidate for governor Yokomichi Setsuo . After graduating from the Tokyo University Faculty of Law in 1966 , he worked as a lawyer in Sapporo. 1969 his father died, and he was elected in December of the same year for the Socialist Party of Japan (SPJ, English from 1991 SDPJ, before JSP; from 1996 Social Democratic Party , English SDP) in its constituency Hokkaidō 1 (5 seats; Sub-prefectures Ishikari and Shiribeshi) was elected to Shūgiin, to which he initially belonged until 1983.

Yokomichi was elected in 1983, 24 years after his father's failed candidacy, as an independent with SPJ support against the LDP- supported lieutenant governor to succeed Dōgakinai Naohiro as governor of Hokkaidō . In 1987 and 1991 he was re-elected for two further terms. In 1995 he left the post of Lieutenant Governor Tatsuya Hori .

For the newly founded DPJ, Yokomichi was re-elected to Shūgiin in 1996 in the new single-mandate constituency Hokkaidō 1 (parts of the city of Sapporo) and then re-elected four times in a row. After the Shūgiin election in 2005 he was elected Vice President of the Shūgiin after the previous incumbent Kansei Nakano (DPJ) had lost his seat. After the democratic election victory in 2009 , he was elected President of Shūgiin on September 16, 2009. In his terms of office as Vice-President and President he was, as is usually the case today, non-attached .

In the DPJ, Yokomichi was repeatedly deputy party chairman (1999, 2000 and 2002) and in 2004 in the shadow cabinet responsible for health, labor and social affairs . In 2002, DPJ MPs who had belonged to the SPJ before the party was founded formed a joint faction , the Shin-Seikyoku Kondankai , under Yokomichi's chairmanship .

In the Shūgiin election in 2012 , when the Democratic Party lost all constituencies in Hokkaidō, Yokomichi was defeated by around 6,000 votes to the previous member of the Prefecture Parliament Toshimitsu Funahashi (LDP), but with this narrow constituency defeat led the DPJ list Hokkaidō and won one of the two seats of the Democrats in the Hokkaido electoral bloc. In 2014 he won the constituency back by over 10,000 votes. In 2016 he announced that he wanted to withdraw from politics for the next Shūgiin election and consequently did not stand for the 2017 election .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 横路 孝 弘 ・ 元 衆院 議長 政界 引退 へ ７５ 歳 、 高 齢 な ど 理由 . In: Mainichi Shimbun . May 21, 2016. Retrieved October 13, 2016 (Japanese).
  2. ↑ ベ テ ラ ン の 引退 相 次 ぐ ＝ 谷 垣 、 横路 氏 ら １４ 人 . In: Jiji Tsūshinsha . September 28, 2017. Retrieved January 7, 2018 (Japanese).
personal data
SURNAME Yokomichi, Takahiro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 横路 孝 弘
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Sapporo , Hokkaidō , Japan