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Politics of Osaka, as in all 47 prefectures of Japan, takes place in the framework of local autonomy that is guaranteed by chapter 8 of the Constitution and laid out in the Local Autonomy Law. The administration is headed by a governor directly elected by the people every four years in first-past-the-post elections. Legislation, the budget and the approval of personnel appointments, including the vice governors, are handled by the prefectural assembly that is directly elected by the people every four years by single-non transferable vote. Political debate in Osaka has in recent years been dominated by the Osaka Metropolis plan, a plan to transform Osaka – similarly to Tokyo – into a ''to'', a metropolitan prefecture in which Osaka city, Sakai city and possibly other municipalities of Ōsaka are dissolved and subdivided into special wards like those of Tokyo city. The main proponent of the plan is the Osaka Restoration Association (''Ōsaka Ishin no Kai'', lit. "Osaka renewal assembly") of former governor and current Osaka city mayor Tōru Hashimoto; by 2012, the party controls the governorship, a majority in the Osaka assembly, and several municipal institutions including the Osaka city mayor and Osaka city assembly. Osaka is one of the most urbanized and economically developed prefectures; with a fiscal strength index of around 0.8〔Osaka Prefectural Government: (Fiscal strength index )〕 its fiscal strength is well above the national average; but unlike Tokyo and Aichi which have fiscal strength indices above 1, Osaka is not able to fully cover its budget with prefectural revenues. == National representation == Osaka's directly elected delegation to the National Diet currently consists of 19 members of the Lower house of Japan (House of Representatives) and currently seven members (eight after 2016 when a reapportionment from three to four seats per election becomes effective in both halves of the chamber) of the Japanese Senate (House of Councillors). Additionally, the prefecture is part of the Kinki proportional representation block for the House of Representatives and the nationwide proportional election to the House of Councillors. In the 2005 Representatives election, the centre-right Liberal Democratic–Kōmeitō coalition had won 17 of Osaka's districts, Democrats only held onto the 11th and 19th districts. In the 2009 election, the landslide was reversed with the centre-left Democratic-Social Democratic opposition winning 18 districts of Osaka and the Liberal Democrats only successfully defending the 13th district. In the 2012 Representatives election, the Japan Restoration Party (JRP) and New Komeito (NK) which had a regional cooperation agreement with the JRP in Kinki won a landslide victory, Liberal Democrats (L) won three seats, Democrats (D) none. The directly elected Representatives and Councillors from Osaka are currently (as of December 16, 2012): * Representatives * * 1st district: Hidetaka Inoue (JRP) * * 2nd district: Akira Satō (L) * * 3rd district: Shigeki Satō (NK) * * 4th district: Masatoshi Murakami (JRP) * * 5th district: Tōru Kunishige (NK) * * 6th district: Shin'ichi Isa (NK) * * 7th district: Naomi Tokashiki (L) * * 8th district: Tomohiko Kinoshita (JRP) * * 9th district: Yasushi Odachi (JRP) * * 10th district: Kenta Matsunami (JRP) * * 11th district: Nobuhisa Itō (JRP) * * 12th district: Tomokatsu Kitagawa (L) * * 13th district: Kōichi Nishino (JRP) * * 14th district: Takashi Tanihata (JRP) * * 15th district: Yasuto Urano (JRP) * * 16th district: Kazuo Kitagawa (NK) * * 17th district: Nobuyuki Baba (JRP) * * 18th district: Takashi Endō (JRP) * * 19th district: Hodaka Maruyama (JRP) * Councillors (Osaka At-large district) * * Class of 2010 (term ends 2016) * * * Hirotaka Ishikawa (NK) * * * Issei Kitagawa (L) * * * Motoyuki Odachi (D) * * Class of 2013 (term ends 2019) * * * Tōru Azuma (JRP) * * * Takuji Yanagimoto (L) * * * Hisatake Sugi (NK) * * * Kōtarō Tatsumi (JCP) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Politics of Osaka」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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