Unity Party (Japan)
Unity Party 結いの党 |
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Leader | Kenji Eda |
President | Kenji Eda |
Secretary-General | Jiro Ono |
Founded | 18 December 2013 |
Dissolved | 21 September 2014 |
Split from | Your Party |
Merged into | Japan Innovation Party |
Headquarters | 2-9-6 Nagatacho Chiyoda, Tokyo |
Newspaper | Conservative Japan |
Ideology | Social liberalism, Neoliberalism, Deregulation, Decentralization |
Political position | Centre |
Colors | Blue |
Website | |
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Politics of Japan Political parties Elections |
The Unity Party (結いの党 Yui no Tō?) was a Japanese political party.
Contents
History
The party was formed in December 2013 by Kenji Eda and 13 other legislators who left Your Party.[1] Your Party initially refused to acknowledge that six councillors had left its caucus in the House of Councillors, but filed a notice in February 2014 which acknowledged their departure from Your Party, allowing the Unity Party to have formal representation in the upper house.[2]
The party supported Morihiro Hosokawa in the Tokyo gubernatorial election, 2014.[3]
Eda had discussions with the Japan Restoration Party in early 2014 with a view toward coordinating the two parties' policy stances. JRP co-head Shintaro Ishihara rejected the idea of coordinating with the Unity Party on the basis of their support for the Constitution of Japan, while the other JRP co-head Toru Hashimoto saw room for agreement on the scope of necessary revisions to the Constitution.[4]
On 21 September 2014, the Unity Party and the Japan Restoration Party merged to form the Japan Innovation Party.[5]
Party presidents
No. | Name | Term of office | Image | |
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Took office | Left office | |||
1 | Kenji Eda | 18 December 2013 | 21 September 2014 | 120px |
Members in the Diet
House of Representatives
- Yoichiro Aoyagi (South Kanto PR block)
- Kenji Eda (Kanagawa 8th district)
- Mitsunari Hatanaka (Kinki PR block)
- Hiroki Hayashi (Tohoku PR block)
- Yosei Ide (Hokuriku-Shin'etsu PR block)
- Nobuhiko Isaka (Kinki PR block)
- Masanari Koike (Tokai PR block)
- Mito Kakizawa (Tokyo 15th district)
- Tsuyoshi Shiina (South Kanto PR block)
House of Councillors
- Yukio Fujimaki (National block)
- Ryuhei Kawada (National block)
- Yuichi Mayama (National block)
- Jiro Ono (National block)
- Takumi Shibata (National block)
- Sukeshiro Terata (National block)
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