Yoshinori Suematsu

Yoshinori Suematsu

Yoshinori Suematsu ( Japanese. 末 松 義 規 , Suematsu Yoshinori ; born December 6, 1956 in Kitakyūshū , Fukuoka Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician and member of the Shūgiin , the lower house of the national parliament, from Tokyo Prefecture . He has been a member of the Constitutional Democratic Party since 2017 . From 2010 to 2012 he was State Secretary and Advisor to the Prime Minister for the Kan and Noda Cabinets.

Suematsu became a civil servant at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1980 after graduating from the Business School of Hitotsubashi University . In 1986 he graduated from Princeton University . In 1994 he left the Ministry and ran as an independent candidate in the mayoral election of the city of Chofu in the west of Tokyo Prefecture, but was subject to incumbent Katsuyuki Yoshio. In the 1996 Shūgiin election , the first under the new electoral law, he stood in the new constituency Tokyo 19 in the west of Tokyo Prefecture in Naoto Kan’s political homeland for the newly founded Democratic Party and won against Kōichirō Watanabe ( NFP , today DPJ, Ozawa -Group ) and four other candidates. He was then able to win the constituency three times, only in the LDP landslide victory in 2005 he was defeated by Yōhei Matsumoto (LDP, Ibuki faction ), but was re-elected through the Tokyo proportional representation.

As early as the end of the 1990s Suematsu took on deputy positions in committees of the party executive, 2006 Suematsu was in Ichirō Ozawa's second shadow cabinet "next environment minister". From 2002 he was also general secretary of the Tokyo Prefectural Association of the Democratic Party. In September 2010, Naoto Kan called him in a cabinet reshuffle as Fukudaijin the Cabinet Office . In 2011, under Kan's successor, Yoshihiko Noda, he initially became an advisor to the Prime Minister, and in 2012 again State Secretary.

In the Shūgiin election in 2012 , Suematsu lost his constituency again to Yōhei Matsumoto and, given the overall poor performance of the party, also missed re-election in the Tokyo block, but with his relatively narrow constituency defeat ( sekihairitsu 80.3%) he was fourth on the list and was the first potential replacement for the Democrats in the Tokyo block. In 2014 he lost the majority constituency relatively narrowly ( sekihairitsu 81.3%), and was the second potential successor in the proportional representation block as 5th on the democratic list.

Like Naoto Kan, he joined the Constitutional Democratic Party for the 2017 Shūgiin election , was even narrower defeated by Matsumoto ( sekihairitsu 94.0%), and won one of the four KDP seats in the proportional representation in Tokyo as the second-best constituency loser.

Web links

• Official Website (Japanese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Yomiuri Shimbun : election results Shūgiin 2014, majority election / Tokyo / constituency 19 and proportional representation / Tokyo / Minshutō
2. ↑ Yomiuri Shimbun : Shūgiin 2017 election results, Tokyo 19 ( Memento of the original from October 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. & Proportional election Tokyo, KDP ( Memento of the original from January 11, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.