New Liberal Club

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.^[1]

It rejoined the LDP on 15 August 1986.

List of presidents of the New Liberal Club

1. Yōhei Kōno, June 1976 – February 1979
2. Seiichi Tagawa, February 1979 – June 1984
3. Yōhei Kōno, June 1984 – August 1986

References

• 新自由クラブ関係文書 (in Japanese). National Diet Library. Retrieved 19 January 2009. 

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