Takeshi Maeda

Takeshi Maeda ( Japanese 前 田 武志 , Maeda Takeshi ; born October 22, 1937 in Totsukawa , Yoshino County , Nara Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician ( Liberal Democratic Party → Shinseitō → Shinshintō → Taiyōtō → Minseitō → Democratic Party → Minshintō ), former member of parliament both houses of the National Parliament and former Minister for Land, Infrastructure and Transport in the Noda cabinet .

Maeda, the nephew of ex-science and technology minister Masao Maeda ( LDP , Tanaka faction ), studied at the engineering faculty of the University of Kyoto . There he completed a graduate degree and then became a civil servant in the building ministry . When his uncle withdrew from politics for the Shūgiin election in 1983 , Maeda left the ministry and applied for the successor in his constituency of Nara, which included five members of the prefecture, with the support of the Tanaka faction. Maeda landed as one of four conservative candidates (next to Maeda Seisuke Okuno (without faction), Chōzaburō Kakita (non-party) and Yasushi Hattori ( Suzuki faction )) in eighth and thus last place. In the 1986 election , he managed to move into the Shūgiin at the second attempt with the second highest share of the vote behind Okuno. Under the Miyazawa Cabinet, he became State Secretary ( seimujikan ) in the State Land Authority in 1991 .

In the constituency of Nara Maeda was re-elected twice until the introduction of the individual constituencies, then in 1996 once in the constituency of Nara 4 , which he lost to Ryōtarō Tanose (LDP) in 2000 . He joined the Hata Ozawa faction in 1992 and helped found the Renewal Party in 1993 . In the party reshuffles in the following years he belonged to the New Progressive Party , the Taiyōtō ("Sun Party"), the Minseitō and thus since 1998 the Democratic Party. After being voted out of office in 2000, Maeda tried to move to the second chamber in the 2001 Sangiin election as a candidate for the Democratic Party in Nara prefecture, but lost around 30 thousand votes to Shōgo Arai (LDP). In 2003 he ran for the gubernatorial election in Nara , but could not defeat incumbent Yoshiya Kakimoto with a high turnout . In 2004 he ran again for the Sangiin via the nationwide proportional representation and won the 18th of 19 proportional representation seats for the Democrats with 110,043 votes. In 2010 he was re-elected for a further six years with 118,248,469 preference votes (13th place).

In addition to several party offices, Maeda has chaired parliamentary committees several times since the late 1990s (1998 in the Shūgiin Committee for Okinawa and the Northern Territories, 1999–2000 in the Shūgiin Communication Committee, 2006–2007 in the Sangiin Committee for “basic national politics” and from 2010 in the Sangiin Budget Committee). In September 2011 he was appointed to the Noda cabinet as the successor to Transport Minister Akihiro Ōhata . In a cabinet reshuffle in June 2012, he was replaced by Yūichirō Hata .

In the 2016 Sangiin election , Maeda received 59,853 votes, making it only 19th place on the list of the Democratic Progressive Party, which only won eleven seats in the national proportional representation, and was thus voted out.

Web links

• Official Website (Japanese)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Yomiuri Shimbun : Results of the 22nd Sangiin election, proportional representation, Democratic Party
2. ^ Yomiuri Shimbun : Results of the 24th Sangiin election, proportional representation, Democratic Progressive Party