It has been learned that Shinji Ishimaru (43), former mayor of Nagi, has decided to resign as the head of the political group “The Path to Regeneration,” which he established himself. The group fielded a total of 52 candidates in this summer’s elections, but all of them lost.
He is expected to hold a press conference soon to announce his future plans. According to multiple sources within The Path to Regeneration, the group will continue to exist, and they are coordinating to select a new leader from among the candidates who ran in the metropolitan assembly election and the House of Councillors election.
He ran in last July’s election, gathering approximately 1.66 million votes and finishing in second place. Building on that momentum, he established The Path to Regeneration in January of this year and assumed the role of its head. In June’s metropolitan assembly election, the group fielded a total of 42 official candidates across 35 electoral districts, and in July’s House of Councillors election, it fielded a total of 10 official candidates for the Tokyo district and the national proportional representation block.
He himself did not run as a candidate, “…
