Japan is gearing up for possible early elections, which will likely be announced by a new leader of the ruling party. Its members will elect that this week.
Former Prime Minister of Japan Yoshihiko Noda was elected today as the leader of the main opposition party in the country and promised to get it into government. This is reported by the Kyodo agency.
Sixty-seven-year-old Noda in the campaign pushed for a shift of the left-leaning Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDPJ) towards the center of the political spectrum. In the second round, he defeated former government spokesman and liberal lawmaker Juki Edan by 232 points to 180.
“I am determined to gain power, our fight begins today,” said the ex-prime minister, who was chairman of the now-defunct Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) from 2011 to 2012. He said the election would definitely take place and promised to name the party’s leadership by Tuesday morning.
The opposition party is trying to present an experienced candidate who will be a known alternative to the next chairman of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). He should be elected on Friday.
Whether at the head of the LDP will replace Prime Minister Fumio Kishida anyone, it’s likely that by the end of the year, he will dissolve the lower house of parliament and hold parliamentary elections. The ruling party is trying to wipe it out fraudulent treatment scandal with funds that came to light at the end of last year.
The LDP, which has held on to power for most of the period since 1955, has faced intense criticism for some of its factions not reporting a share of income from fundraising parties and creating secret funds. One of these factions was led by the current Prime Minister Kishida.
Candidates for the chairmanship of the CDPJ as part of their bid for power they promised to clean up politicsincluding the fight against the so-called inheritance policy in Japan. They targeted some candidates for the chairmanship of the ruling party, who are the sons of former legislators.
Noda for his tenure as prime minister increased the excise tax from five percent to tencausing the DPJ to lose the 2012 election and the LDP government to return. At that time, it was headed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who died in 2022 as a result of an assassination attempt.
Source: zpravy.tiscali.cz
