nuclear-news

Japanese political party to campaign for abolishing nuclear power

Your Party stands against tax hike, nuclear plants Japan Times, 3 July 13 BY REIJI YOSHIDA Your Party will stress its call to freeze the upcoming consumption tax hike and promise to abolish all nuclear power plants by 2030 when the campaign for the Upper House officially starts Thursday, party leader Yoshimi Watanabe
said.

“We’d like to say to voters, ‘please don’t lose hope in politics,’ ”
Watanabe told The Japan Times and other media outlets during a joint
interview Wednesday. “If they give up, the Liberal Democratic Party
and New Komeito will win a big victory.”

With the support rate for the LDP-New Komeito alliance remaining
consistently high, according to public opinion polls, observers are
predicting a big victory for the ruling camp in the July 21 election.

Your Party is the fourth-largest force in the Upper House, holding 13
seats. Three of them will be contested in this election as half of the
242-seat chamber is up for grabs. The party as of Tuesday had 30
candidates.

“The possibility is very high that if the LDP-New Komeito bloc wins
big, they will go back to their old politics, which is to benefit
industry groups” that support and fund their campaigns, Watanabe
said……http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/03/national/your-party-stands-against-tax-hike-nuclear-plants/#.UdZHWjtwo6I

July 5, 2013 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Japan, politics