Kazuhiro Haraguchi

Kazuhiro Haraguchi (Japanese原 口 一 博, Kazuhiro Haraguchi; born July 2, 1959 in Saga, Saga Prefecture) is a Japanese politician, Member of the Shūgiin, the lower house, for the Democratic Party and former Prime. Within the party he belongs to the Hata group.

Haraguchi, a graduate of the University of Tokyo, visited after his graduation in 1983, the Matsushita Seikei Juku (松下 政 経 塾, Eng. Matsushita Institute of Government and Management). In 1987 he was first elected as an Independent in Parliament Saga Prefecture, re-elected in 1991 for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP ). In the 1993 election he tried Shūgiin in the constituency Saga ( five seats), which covered the whole Prefecture, as an independent jump into the national parliament, but missed the fifth highest share of the vote just by around 550 votes.

For the New Progressive Party Haraguchi was first elected in 1996 Shūgiin - election in the newly created single constituency Saga 1 and then re-elected four times for the Democratic Party - in 2000 and 2005, only the proportional representation block Kyūshū. In Shūgiin he was also a member of the Budget Committee and the Special Committee on the abduction issue. He belonged to various democratic shadow cabinets.

In September 2009, the party leader and Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama appointed him as Minister of General Affairs and Minister of State for the " carriage of the sovereignty of the Regions " (地域 主 権 推进, chiiki Shuken Suishin ) in his cabinet. Under Hatoyama's successor, Naoto Kan, he retained this position until September 2010. Afterwards it was until 2012 Chairman of the Committee on General Affairs Shūgiin.

In the Democratic defeat at the 2012 Shūgiin choice Haraguchi lost the constituency Saga 1 by approximately 7,500 votes to the former prefecture MPs Kazuchika Iwata (LDP ), but won with its relatively narrow constituency defeat one of the three proportional representation mandates of the Democrats in the block Kyūshū.