Toshihiro Nikai

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Toshihiro Nikai (2016)

Toshihiro Nikai ( Japanese. 二階 俊 博 , Nikai Toshihiro ; born February 17, 1939 in Gobō , Wakayama Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician , general secretary of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), a member of the lower house of the national parliament and a former minister in the twelfth term . Within the LDP, he has been leading the former Ibuki, now Nikai faction since 2012 . Before that he was from 2003 to 2009 chairman of the Atarashii Nami ("New Wave"; mostly Nikai group) from previous members of theNew Conservative Party .

Life

Nikai studied law at Chūō University . He then worked as the secretary of an LDP lower house MP from Shizuoka. After his death, he returned to Wakayama, where he successfully ran for a seat in the prefectural parliament in 1975. In 1983 he was elected as a candidate for the Tanaka faction for the 2nd constituency of the prefecture in the Japanese lower house. After the electoral reform in 1994, he represented the constituency of Wakayama 3 , which he won for the eighth time in a row in 2017 and thus achieved his twelfth electoral victory.

In 1990 Toshihiro Nikai became State Secretary in the Ministry of Transport (merged into MLIT in 2001 ) in the second cabinet of Toshiki Kaifu . When the former Tanaka faction under Noboru Takeshita split in 1992 after a series of scandals , Nikai moved to the "Reform Forum 21" of Tsutomu Hata and Ichirō Ozawa and followed them a year later to the Renewal Party . The LDP lost its parliamentary majority when the party left, which was confirmed by subsequent new elections. In the new government without LDP, Nikai was again State Secretary in the Ministry of Transport. After the overthrow of the Hosokawa and Hata governments and the return of the LDP to the government, Ozawa first joined the New Progress Party and thus the opposition, then the Liberal Party . In 1999 he became Minister of Transport and Head of the Hokkaidō Development Authority in the second remodeled Obuchi cabinet . After the Liberal Party left the government coalition of Keizo Obuchi after participating in the meantime, Nikai switched to the Conservative Party of Takeshi Noda , which continued government cooperation with the LDP, and he retained his two ministerial posts. After the election of Yoshirō Moris as Prime Minister in April 2000, he was taken over as Minister of Transport and head of the authority for the development of Hokkaidō, but replaced in July in Mori's second cabinet . In 2003 he returned to the LDP, where he founded his own faction with the other former members of the (since 2002: New) Conservative Party. The Nikai faction at that time existed until November 2009, when it joined the Ibuki faction, decimated by the LDP defeat in the 2009 general election .

In the 3rd Koizumi cabinet , Nikai was Minister for Economy, Trade and Industry from 2005 to 2006 . When party chairman Yasuo Fukuda took office , Nikai became chairman of the LDP's executive council. In a cabinet reshuffle in August 2008, Fukuda Nikai reappointed Minister of Economy, successor as chairman of the Sōmukai was Takashi Sasagawa ( Tsushima faction ). He remained a minister until the resignation of the Aso cabinet in September 2009. From 2013 Nikai chaired the Budget Committee of the Lower House.

The party chairman Shinzō Abe appointed Nikai again in September 2014 as chairman of the executive board; he has been Secretary General of the LDP since the cabinet reshuffle on August 3, 2016 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nihon Keizai Shimbun : 二階 自 民 幹事 長 「エ ネ ル ギ ー あ ふ れ る 党 運 営 に 努力」 就任 会見 (Japanese), accessed March 13, 2017

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SURNAME Nikai, Toshihiro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 二階 俊 博 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Gobo