Nobuyuki Baba
Nobuyuki Baba | |
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馬場 伸幸 | |
 Baba in 2022 | |
| Leader of the Japan Innovation Party | |
| Assumed office 30 November 2021 Serving with Ichirō Matsui (2021–2022) | |
| Preceded by | Toranosuke Katayama[a] Ichirō Matsui[b] |
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| Assumed office 17 December 2012 | |
| Preceded by | Megumu Tsuji |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 27 January 1965 Sakai, Osaka, Japan |
| Political party | Japan Innovation Party (National) Osaka Restoration Association (Local) |
| Other political affiliations | LDP (Until 2010) JRP (2012–2014) JIP (2014–2015) |
| Education | Osaka Prefectural Ohtori High School |
Nobuyuki Baba (馬場 伸幸, Baba Nobuyuki, born 27 January 1965) is a Japanese politician who has been the leader of the Japan Innovation Party since 27 August 2022. He is also a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature), currently for the Osaka 17th district.
Biography
[edit]Baba was born in Sakai city, Osaka in 1965, and graduated Osaka Prefectural Ōtori High School. In 1993, he was elected to the Sakai City Council for the first time. He served as a member of the Sakai City Council until 2012. He was a member of the Liberal Democratic Party for a long time when he was a city councilor, but left the party in 2010 to join the formation of the Osaka Restoration Association, and has served as vice president of the party since 2011.
In 2012, Baba resigned as a member of the Sakai City Council. In the same year, he ran in the 2012 general election for the House of Representatives in Osaka's 17th district from the Japan Restoration Party and was elected for the first time.
In September 2014, Baba participated in the formation of the Japan Innovation Party through the merger of the Unity Party and the Japan Restoration Party, and was reelected in the 2014 general election for the House of Representatives in Osaka's 17th district. Subsequently, he was newly appointed as the chairman of the Diet Affairs Committee of the Japan Innovation Party.
In August 2015, when the Restoration Party split, Baba announced that he would join the new party led by then Osaka Mayor Hashimoto, and on 8 September, he was removed from his position as chairman of the Japan Innovation Party's Diet Affairs Committee.[1]
On 25 December, Baba officially joined the Initiative from Osaka and became the party's secretary general.[2]
Baba was elected for the third time in the 2017 general election for the House of Representatives;[3] he was elected for the fourth time in the 2021 general election for the House of Representatives.[4]
On 30 November 2021, Baba was appointed co-leader and the leader of parliamentary delegate of Nippon Ishin no Kai.
In July 2022, Ichirō Matsui, then leader of Nippon Ishin no Kai, announced his resignation; on 2 August Baba announced his candidacy for party representative following Matsui's resignation;[5] on 27 August Baba received 8,527 of the 10,825 valid votes cast and became the party's new leader that same day.[6]
Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "維新が柿沢幹事長を解任、後任に今井氏". 日本経済新聞社. 8 September 2015. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
- ^ "おおさか維新に馬場氏ら３議員正式入党". The Sankei Shimbun. 25 December 2015. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
- ^ "大阪-開票速報-2017衆議院選挙（衆院選）：朝日新聞デジタル". The Asahi Shimbun Company. 2017. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
- ^ "衆議院選挙2021 大阪(堺・岸和田など)開票速報・選挙結果 小選挙区". NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation). 2021. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
- ^ "維新 馬場伸幸共同代表 代表選への立候補を表明". NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation). 2 August 2022. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
- ^ "㊤「動くな」松井氏自ら切り崩し 党内融和に腐心の船出". The Sankei Shimbun. 27 August 2022. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
- Living people
- 1965 births
- 21st-century Japanese politicians
- Members of the House of Representatives (Japan)
- Japan Restoration Party politicians
- Japan Innovation Party politicians
- Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) politicians
- Nippon Ishin no Kai politicians
- People from Sakai, Osaka
- Politicians from Osaka Prefecture