Finance minister Masayoshi Takemura leads the third coalition partner in the government, the New Harbinger Party, a relatively minor, left-leaning splinter group from the LDP which polled only 2 per cent of the vote in recent upper house elections.

• 武村正义藏相领导着联合政府的第三方新党魁党，这是由自民党分裂出来的左翼小派别组成的，它在最近的上议院选举中，只得到了2%25的选票。