People's Life First
Kokumin no Seikatsu ga Daiichi (Japanese国民の生活が第一, dt about " The life of the citizens [ comes ] first " or " ... of the people ...", short Seikatsu (生活); engl People's First Life is short. LF) was a political party in Japan, chaired by Ichirō Ozawa, who was in the second half of 2012. Media and the public, the party often referred to as Shinto Ozawa (小 沢 新 党), the "new Ozawa Party ".
It was founded in July 2012, after Ozawa and 48 other MPs of the ruling Democratic Party of both chambers of the national Parliament in opposition to planned doubling of VAT ( Shohi - show, literally " consumption " or "consumption tax") resigned from the party were respectively excluded. Under the later party names they had in early July 2012 merged to form parliamentary parties in both chambers. After its establishment, the party was with 36 members in the House, the second largest opposition party - the deputy Chobin Zukeran participated while at the faction but not the party's founding. Short-term main goal of the party was to prevent the tax increase; further announced at the founding meeting of the program are the rejection of the policy pursued by the government re-commissioning of nuclear power plants, a rapid implementation of reforms to fiscal decentralization and the continuation antideflationärer policy. With the equally split off from the Democratic Party Shinto Kizuna a joint House Group has been constituted. Negotiations on a cooperation with the Osaka Ishin no Kai by Tōru Hashimoto, who pushed forward at the next general election in the national policy, failed on the issue of Japan's possible participation in the Trans- Pacific free trade zone TPP; Ozawa's party refuses to participate, Hashimoto's party seeks it.
Secretary General of the party was Shozo Azuma, the General Meeting of Members of both chambers led Kenji Yamaoka, the Assembly of the House of Representatives Sadatoshi Kumagai that the Upper House MPs Tadashi Hirono, the campaign committee Ozawa itself the party name grabbed a slogan of the Democratic Party in the lower house election campaign in 2009.
Beginning of August 2012 put the party at the opening of the party headquarters, the key points of their political program before: The " three urgent measures " were followed by the prevention or reduction of the VAT increase, the complete phase out nuclear power within ten years and the strengthening of local authorities. A formulation of concrete demands on other policy areas was postponed. With the New Party Kizuna, a forthcoming merger should be a collaboration, but not a merger, it should be with the New Party Daichi of Muneo Suzuki. In November 2012, the deputies of the Shinto Kizuna occurred in other than the Chairman Akira Uchiyama Ozawa's party.
On November 27, 2012, the party leadership decided to dissolve the party and join the new Nippon Mirai no Tō ( "Future Party of Japan " ) by Yukiko Kada. The future party split after the devastating general election in December 2012. Indirect successor of Kokumin no Seikatsu ga Daiichi is the Seikatsu no Tō of Ichirō Ozawa in which collected the most remaining MPs.