Kouta Hisakawa, EM (久川皇太 Hisakawa Kōtai; born March 30, 1951) is an El Kadsreian politician who was the 2nd Prime Minister of El Kadsre from 1990 to 1996 and the 9th and current President of El Kadsre since 2024. He is the founder and leader of the Dignity Party.
At 39, Hisakawa held the record as the youngest El Kadsreian prime minister and at 73, the record of oldest El Kadsreian president. He is also the only leader of El Kadsre to serve as both Prime Minister and President after Michael Vlokozu, and the only to run two non-consecutive positions. Under his prime ministership, he introduced social reforms and he signed the peace treaties with Sentan in 1990 and Argentina and Trayu in 1991. He is a 1995 Nobel Peace Prize recipient. He is sometimes referred as "El Kadsreian Nelson Mandela".
After he left office in the leadership spill, Hisakawa went on to join the El Kadsreian National Party and wage his unsuccessful presidential campaign in 2006, but he lost to Kazuya Meyers. In 2007, a year after he lost in the presidental election, Hisakawa resigned as leader and created his own political party known as the Dignity Party. Hiskawa launched his second presidental campaign in 2024 under the Dignity ticket, in which he defeated the incumbent El Kadsreian president Nedel Maki and Union ticket candidate Jarred Vlokozu.
Biography[]
Hisakawa in 1991
Kouta was born in Madwyn in March 30, 1951 to the working class family. His father was a coal miner and his mother was a nurse. When he was six, Hisakawa moved to El Kadsre City, then known as New Edo. When Hisakawa entered high school, he was introduced to liberalism and was involved in demonstrations against the Georgelandic-El Kadsreian War and United States’ involvement in the Vietnam War. In 1973, After graduating at the University of El Kadsre, Hisakawa was voted into parliament as the member of the Vlokozuian Labor Party, the second largest party in the Vlokozu Union. For most of his political career during the Vlokozu era. Hisakawa was a Labor backbencher and in 1977, Hisakawa was one of many Labor MPs who witnessed the UPVU purge. His political career eventually took a turn in 1989 following the dissolution of the Vlokozu Union, when the newly inaugurated prime minister of El Kadsre Susumu Mizushima, appointed Hisakawa as deputy prime minister.