People's Life First
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People's Life First
国民の生活が第一 Kokumin no Seikatsu ga Daiichi |
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| President | Ichirō Ozawa |
| Secretary-General | Shōzō Azuma |
| Councilors leader | Tadashi Hirono |
| Representatives leader | Sadatoshi Kumagai |
| Founded | 11 July 2012 |
| Dissolved | 16 December 2012 |
| Split from | Democratic Party of Japan |
| Merged into | Tomorrow Party of Japan |
| Ideology |
Pragmatism Localism |
| Political position | Centre |
| Colors | green |
| Website | |
| http://www.seikatsu1.jp | |
People's Life First (国民の生活が第一 Kokumin no Seikatsu ga Daiichi, literally "The citizens' livelihood is paramount"?) was a short-lived political party in Japan. It had 37 out of the 480 seats in the House of Representatives, and 12 in the 242-member House of Councillors. On 28 November 2012, the party merged into Governor of Shiga Yukiko Kada's Japan Future Party based in Ōtsu.
The party was founded by Ichiro Ozawa and 48 other diet members who were in the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) after the DPJ government of Yoshihiko Noda voted to increase the consumption tax from 5% to 10%. The inaugural meeting was held at the parliamentary museum on 11 July 2012. The diet members included 37 lower house members and 12 upper house members. By the end of the month the party had become the third largest in the lower house behind the DPJ and the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and the fourth largest bloc in the upper house behind the DPJ, LDP, and New Komeito.
The party opposed the increase in the consumption tax and plans to reduce nuclear energy to zero. Nevertheless, many saw the party's, especially Ozawa's, opposition to the increase in consumption tax and plans to maintain nuclear energy usage as simply being politically expedient positions.
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