Hiroyuki Sonoda

Hiroyuki Sonoda (Japanese园田 博 之, Hiroyuki Sonoda; born February 19, 1942 in Kawaura, Amakusa district (today: Amakusa ), Kumamoto Prefecture) is a Japanese politician of the Party Nippon Ishin no Kai and member of the Japanese Parliament for the fourth constituency Kumamoto. By 2010 he was a member of the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP).

Sonoda, a graduate of Nihon Daigaku, worked after his graduation until 1983 for the fishing companies Nichiro Gyogyo KK (now part of K. K. Maruha Nichiro Holdings). After the death of his father, MP, former Foreign Minister Sunao Sonoda and social, he was a candidate in the election in 1986 in the House of Commons constituency. The fünfmandatigen second constituency Kumamoto he won as an Independent ( with support from the Fukuda faction ) with 73252.258 votes at number one - the " split votes " resulted from the fact that the wife of his father, Tenkōkō Sonoda that in 1946 one of the first women had been in Parliament in 1986 was a candidate in the same constituency.

Sonoda first joined the LDP. In 1993 he left the party in advance of the general election and participated in the founding of the New Party Sakigake Masayoshi Takemura of. He was from 1993 to 1994 and 1996, the Secretary-General ( Daihyō kanji), after the departure of Naoto Kan and Yukio Hatoyama in 1996 continued for a short time General Secretary ( now kanjichō ). In the Cabinets of Tomiichi Murayama he was between 1994-1996 Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary.

Since the election of 1996 Sonoda occurs in an individual constituency Kumamoto 4, six times he won clearly in a row for itself since its establishment. After the dissolution ( renaming ) the New Party Sakigake in 1998, he returned in 1999 back to the LDP and joined the Katō-/Ozata-/Tanigaki-Faktion to. Under the party chairman Sadakazu Tanigaki was Sonoda Deputy Secretary General ( kanjichō - dairi ) from 2009 until March 2010, when he resigned, which he founded with differences of opinion in the party leadership. In April 2010, Sonoda left the LDP and participated in the founding of Nippon Tachiagare, where he held the most important position behind the chairman Hiranuma and Yosano as Secretary General. 2012 went to the party in the Nippon Ishin no Kai of the former governor of Osaka Tōru Hashimoto. For this Sonoda could win in the general election in 2012 is one of only two direct mandates outside the prefecture of Osaka. The major parties had nominated no opposing candidates, only the now non-party former MP Masayoshi Yagami and a communist competed against Sonoda.