Gay politician wins Upper House seat with LGBT support
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
July 22, 2019
DIVERSITYｂ
女性議員、LGBT議員はもっと増やすべきだね。
2人の重度障害者議員は画期的。山本氏の功績大。
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
July 22, 2019
DIVERSITYｂ
A record 28% percent of candidates were women in the first national election since Japan enacted a law setting a non-binding target for parties to run an equal number of men and women, and a record-tying 28 women were elected.
LGBT candidate Taiga Ishikawa won a seat with support from the opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan – which had made diversity a campaign slogan – to become the country’s only openly gay member of parliament.
And two severely disabled candidates including Yasuhiko Funago, who has the progressive neurological disease Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), won seats with the backing of a small opposition group.
女性議員、LGBT議員はもっと増やすべきだね。
2人の重度障害者議員は画期的。山本氏の功績大。
