Tsuyoshi Saitō

Tsuyoshi Saitō ( Japanese 斎 藤 勁 , Saitō Tsuyoshi ; born July 10, 1945 in Yokohama , Kanagawa Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician ( Socialist Party of Japan → Social Democratic Party → Democratic Party , therein to the Hiraoka Kondō group ). From 1995 to 2005 he was a member of the Council and from 2009 to 2012 in the Chamber of Deputies .

Saitō worked for the Yokohama City Council after graduating from middle school. He already worked at the Yokohama Municipal Commercial High School and attended evening classes at the Law Faculty of Kanagawa University .

In 1987 Saitō was elected to the city council. In the 1995 election to the Council House , he ran for the Socialist Party of Japan in Kanagawa (three seats) and was elected with the third highest percentage of votes. In 1996 he took part in the founding of the Democratic Party, for which he was re-elected for a second term in 2001 with the third highest percentage of votes. From 1999 to 2000 he chaired the Transport and Communication Committee.

In 2005 Saitō resigned his mandate to run for the House of Representatives in the "post-privatization election " in the 11th constituency of Kanagawa against Jun'ichirō Koizumi . He was defeated by around 51 to 197 thousand votes Koizumi and thus also missed an election on the proportional electoral block South Kanto. In 2007 he ran again for the council house via the national proportional representation, but with only 44,529 preferential votes could not win a mandate despite the good performance of the Democrats. In 2009 he applied - this time only through the block south Kanto - again for the House of Representatives and was elected 10th place on the list. In 2011, under Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda ( Noda cabinet (2nd reshuffle) ), he became deputy head of the cabinet secretariat alongside Hiroyuki Nagahama (council house) and Makoto Taketoshi (civil servant) .

In the 2012 Shūgiin election , Saitō was voted out of office: In the 1st constituency of Yamanashi, he was only third behind Noriko Miyagawa ( LDP ) and Sakihito Ozawa ( Nippon Ishin no Kai ) and, with his constituency result, clearly missed re-election in the southern Kantō block.

Web links

• Official Website (Japanese)
• Kantei : Short biography (Japanese, English)