New Liberal Club

The New Liberal Club (Japanese新自由クラブ, Shin Jiyu kurabu ) was a moderately conservative political party in Japan. It consisted of its foundation by former MP of the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP) in 1976 until 1986, when he disbanded and the remaining members returned to the LDP. Under Prime Minister Nakasone Yasuhiro (LDP ), he was involved from 1983 to 1986 in a coalition government.

History

As part of the Lockheed scandal surrounding former LDP party leader and Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei left in the summer of 1976, six delegates from predominantly urban constituencies, the LDP, including the Shūgiin deputies Kono Yohei, Tagawa Seiichi, Nishioka Takeo Yamaguchi Toshio, and established the new Liberal Club, a " renewal conservative politics " (保守 政治 の 刷新, Hoshu seiji no sasshin ) to reach.

When Shūgiin - election in December 1976 the New Liberal Club won 17 seats. In polls, he was ranked third, behind temporarily LDP and SPJ. In 1979, he dropped back to four seats, but could recover in the elections in 1980 to twelve mandates. With the moderate socialists from 1977 incurred Shakai - Minshu rengō ( " Social Democratic Federation " ) of the Hideo founded the New Liberal Club in 1981 a common fraction, which was until September 1983.

In the Shūgiin - election in 1983, which was influenced by the trial of Tanaka Kakuei because of the Lockheed scandal, the LDP lost its absolute majority. Nakasone Yasuhiro formed a coalition with the New Liberal Club, which was represented in the new cabinet with its chairman, Seiichi Tagawa as " Minister of self-government" and head of the National Public Safety Commission. The one-party government of the LDP was interrupted for the first time after 28 years.

In 1984, Kono Yohei again the party presidency, after a reshuffle of the New Liberal Club was awarded the Department of Labor, as of 1985 the Ministry of Science and Technology. In 1985, the New Liberal Club against Nakasone by maintaining the limit decided by the Cabinet in 1976 Miki of Japan's defense spending to one percent of the gross domestic product. ( The limit was repealed in 1987 but not significantly exceeded to this day. )

In the Shūgiin - election in 1986 the party dropped to six seats, while the LDP simultaneously regained a clear absolute majority and was therefore no longer dependent on a coalition partner. In August, after the election, the New Liberal Club disbanded, its members joined with the exception of Tagawa Seiichi the LDP.

Aftermath

Kono Yohei rose like his father Ichirō in the postwar period to a guide politicians of the LDP on. When the LDP in 1993 not only again lost the parliamentary majority but also the government participation by party outlets, the Kono regarded as reform-oriented was elected LDP president. A year later he brought the LDP back through a coalition with their traditional main rival, the Socialist Party of Japan, in the government.

Party chairman

  • Yohei Kono 1976-1980
  • Seiichi Tagawa 1980-1984
  • Yohei Kono 1984-1986
Yasuhiro Nakasone Lockheed bribery scandals
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