The representative election of the Japan Restoration Party was announced on the 14th, and three members of the Diet ran as candidates, and the election campaign started.


A new representative will be elected at the extraordinary party convention to be held on the 27th of this month.

The representative election of the Japan Restoration Party, which will choose the successor of Matsui, was announced on the 14th, and the candidacy was accepted at the party headquarters in Osaka.



The candidates, in


order of notification, were


▽ House of Representatives member Yasushi Adachi,


▽ Co-representative Nobuyuki Baba , and ▽


House of Councilors member Mizuho Umemura.

Candidates

need

30



or more "special party members," consisting of members of the Diet and local assembly members who belong to the party.

has become a person

More than 580 "special party members" and about 19,300 "ordinary party members" participated in the representative election, all with one vote per person. is elected.

This is the first time that a representative election has been held for the Japan Restoration Party, and in addition to Osaka, street speeches and online debates are planned in Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, etc. It is expected that controversy will be exchanged over measures to expand the party's power nationwide.








What is Japan Restoration Party?

The origin of the Japan Restoration Party was 12 years ago in 2010, when the then governor of Osaka Prefecture, Toru Hashimoto, formed a regional political party called the Osaka Metropolis Plan to reorganize the prefecture and city. Meeting.



In the unified local elections held the following year (2011), the party won a majority in the Osaka Prefectural Assembly and the first party in the Osaka City Assembly.



In the autumn, Mr. Hashimoto resigned as governor and set up an “Osaka double election” for gubernatorial and mayoral elections.



In 2012, he launched the Japan Restoration Party with the aim of advancing into national politics, and won 54 seats in the House of Representatives election in which he joined with the Sun Party led by former Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara. , became the second opposition party.



However, the party split as differences of opinion surfaced over basic policies such as nuclear power plants and constitutional revision.



In May 2015, the "Osaka metropolitan plan" was rejected in a referendum, and Hashimoto, who was the mayor of Osaka, announced his intention to retire from politics until the end of his term in December.



On the other hand, in November, Mr. Hashimoto and Mr. Matsui formed a new political party "Osaka Restoration Party", and the following year the party changed its name to the current "Japan Restoration Party". I was.



Regarding the "Osaka metropolitan plan," which can be said to be the party's signature policy, the second referendum was held two years ago (2020), but it was rejected again.



In taking this responsibility, Mr. Matsui has announced his retirement from politics next April (2023) when his term as mayor of Osaka ends.



And since he indicated his intention to resign as representative after the previous House of Councilors election, the first representative election will be held this time.

Mechanism of representative election

The representative election of the Japan Restoration Party is 586 "special party members" consisting of party-affiliated Diet members, local assembly members, governors, mayors of municipalities, and candidates scheduled for official elections, and other "general party members." Of these, 19,293 people who have paid party dues for the past two years will participate.



Only "special party members" can run for representative elections, and it is necessary to collect 30 or more nominations from among "special party members".



Unlike the presidential election of the LDP, since "special party members" and "regular party members" have the same one vote per person, it is necessary to collect a large number of "regular party members" votes to win.



However, viewing the roster of "general party members" requires the permission of "special party members," who gather party members.



"Special party members" will vote at the extraordinary party convention on the 27th of this month, and "ordinary party members" will vote in advance by mail until the day before, and all votes will be counted at the extraordinary party convention.



There is no provision for a run-off vote, and the candidate with the most votes is elected as the new representative.