Liberal League

The Liberal League; Japanese Jiyu Rengo (自由連合); is a free market liberal party in Japan. It is a minor party, but it does have one seat in the House of Representatives in the Diet. The League, whose name can also be translated as "Freedom League" or "Libertarian Union" (even though its official English translation is Liberal League), has a liberal and free market political agenda. The party was formed in 2001 and won a few seats in its first election; however, in the 2003 parliamentary elections, it won only one. It won no seats in the July 2004 Upper House Elections. On domestic policy, the party supports privatization and smaller government, but also calls for increasing the rights of women. It supports the government on most issues, and, despite being critical of Japan's close relationship with the United States, is supportive of the war in Iraq. It gains its base mostly from farmers. It supports the government (made up of the Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) and the New Clean Government Party on most issues unofficially. On domestic policy, the party is a liberal party. In the 2005 lower house elections, the Liberal League's only sitting member of parliament declined to run for reelection.

See also

• Liberalism
• Contributions to liberal theory
• Liberalism worldwide
• List of liberal parties
• Liberal democracy
• List of political parties in Japan
• Politics of Japan

External links

• Liberal League official site (includes an English section)

•  • e Political parties in Japan
Parliamentary parties	Liberal Democratic Party – Democratic Party of Japan – New Komeito Party – Japanese Communist Party – Social Democratic Party – People's New Party – New Party Nippon – New Party Daichi
Other parties	Liberal League – Dainiin Club – Takeru – Japan Greens
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