New Liberal Club 新自由クラブ Shin-jiyū-kurabu | |
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Leader | Yōhei Kōno |
Secretary-General | Takeo Nishioka |
Founded | June 25, 1976 |
Dissolved | August 15, 1986 |
Split from | Liberal Democratic Party |
Merged into | Liberal Democratic Party |
Ideology | Progressivism[1] |
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New Liberal Club (新自由クラブ, Shin-jiyū-kurabu) was a political party in Japan that was founded on 25 June 1976 as a breakaway from the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).
The New Liberal Club formed a coalition government with the LDP in December 1983, with the New Liberal's president, Seiichi Tagawa, serving as the Minister of Home Affairs in the government of Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone.[2]
It rejoined the LDP on 15 August 1986.