The
New Party Nippon (新党日本
Shintō Nippon)
is a Japanese political party formed on
August
21,
2005.
The party is headed by the former Nagano
governor
Yasuo Tanaka, and includes Diet members Kōki Kobayashi (deputy leader),
Takashi Aoyama, Makoto Taki, and Hiroyuki Arai, who left the
Liberal Democratic
Party in opposition to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s postal privatization
drive.
The new party is seen as aiming to appeal toward urban voters,
while the
People's New Party,
formed around the same time by other LDP rebels, has a more rural
support base.
In the
Japan general election,
2005, only one member, Makoto Taki, was elected (to a
proportional seat in Kinki
), with
Kobayashi and Aoyama, among others, failing to be elected in either
single-seat or proportional districts.
On July 2007, Hiroyuki Arai and Minoru Taki left the party.
In the Japanese
House of
Councillors election, 2007, Yasuo Tanaka, the President, was
elected. He is only one member seat in this party now.
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