What is the “realistic path” of new representative Yoshihiko Noda? Diplomacy and security “continuity”, zero nuclear power generation target…aimed at capturing widespread anti-LDP groups: Tokyo Shimbun TOKYO Web

2024-09-23 21:00:00

With the House of Representatives disbanded early and a general election to be held, the new representative of Japan’s Constitutional Democratic Party, Yoshihiko Noda, will use his political experience to project a sense of stability against the Liberal Democratic Party. Although the party advocates a pragmatic approach to foreign, security and energy policies and calls for the restoration of trust lost during the previous Democratic Party of Japan’s administration, it is difficult to discern differences between the party and the Democratic Party in some respects. In preparation for a change of government, is it possible to move beyond traditional alliances with opposition parties and bring in a broad range of anti-Liberal Democratic forces, including moderate conservatives? (Canabagui)

(From left) Yukio Edano, Kenta Izumi, new members of Congress Yoshihiko Noda, and Harumi Yoshida smile after the election of representatives of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan in a hotel in Tokyo on the 23rd (photo by Eiji Suto).

◆”End plutocracy and limit hereditary politics”

Noda emphasized at a special party congress held in Tokyo on the 23rd that “the most important thing is the people’s trust in politics, and we will end chaebol rule and limit hereditary politics.” He emphasized the difference between the party and the Liberal Democratic Party, which has a large number of hereditary family, and fueled political distrust by scandals involving bribery by factional parties.

Since Abe’s second administration, the focus of economic policy has been to “correct the gap between rich and poor and restore a huge middle class” because although big companies and the rich have become rich, many families suffering from rising prices have not benefited. He expressed the need to implement tax credits and free education that greatly benefit low-income people, which was advocated by Rep. Yoshida Harumi during the representative election.

◆ “Abolish the unconstitutional parts of the National Security Law” downplayed

While it has demonstrated its own uniqueness in political, monetary and economic policies, it has learned from the failure of the previous Democratic Party government in seeking major policy shifts and maintained LDP continuity in foreign and security affairs, such as Japan-U.S. alliance. On security, the party has moderated its basic policy of “removing unconstitutional parts of security legislation.” The “zero nuclear power” clause stipulated in the party’s platform has been “sealed” and replaced with a more realistic expression of establishing a society that does not rely on nuclear power.

The party is poised to tone down the Democrats’ distinctive liberal overtones and broaden support for moderate conservatives, but the field of candidates has not been smooth sailing so far. Only about 190 of the 289 single-seat constituencies are able to field candidates. In order to push the LDP into the minority, there is an urgent need to differentiate candidates from other parties and coordinate their efforts.

In the last House of Representatives election in 2021, the parliament and the Communist Party reached an agreement on candidate coordination and “limited extra-cabinet cooperation.” The Liberal Democratic Party criticized it as a “constitutional communist party” and failed to obtain the votes it hoped for. This time, the party will shift its security policy to a more realistic approach, and Noda plans to reconsider cooperation in the election, saying “I cannot run the same government with the Communist Party.”

◆The Communist Party is wary of cooperative review policies

Communist Party General Secretary Koike Koike told reporters on the 23rd that there are problems with this response. He said: “Abolition of the security legislation is the first step in the joint struggle of the opposition parties. The fact that it cannot be abolished immediately is serious.” “In the proxy election During this period, Aichi Prefecture, Chiba Prefecture and other regions successively fielded candidates, and constituencies that supported the Liberal Democratic Party last time also fielded candidates, raising concerns about the scattering of anti-LDP votes.

In order to unite the anti-liberal democracy forces, in addition to the National Democratic Party, which Noda expressed his hope to cooperate with, cooperation with other opposition parties such as the Japan Restoration Party will also be considered. A mid-level lawmaker from the Ritsumeikan Democratic Party said: “First, I hope they will establish a party structure by reorganizing party cadres, and then find ways to cooperate with the opposition parties. If the next House of Representatives election is run by candidates competing against the Communist Party We were unable to cooperate with the Meiji Restoration.

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◆The debate in the special parliament in October…the first issue will be a thorough investigation of the bribery scandal.

Yoshihiko Noda, the new representative of Japan’s Constitutional Democratic Party, positioned the most important issue at the extraordinary parliament convened in October as a thorough investigation of the party’s black money scandal involving the political funds of the Liberal Democratic Party faction. Although the nine candidates for the Liberal Democratic Party’s presidential election all advocate political reform, they are unwilling to disclose the actual situation. Noda said, “Unless there is trust in politics, policies cannot be promoted,” and prepared to pressure the new prime minister who will succeed Fumio Kishida to re-amend the Political Funds Control Act and allow lawmakers who receive small grants to participate in meetings . (Kondo Chanyoshi)

Announcing his determination at the special party congress, Noda asserted that “a change of government is the greatest political reform.” Through the representative election, he called on the LDP to reinvestigate the bribery scandal and called for fundamental reforms such as banning companies and organizations Donations, Repeal Campaign Fees, Disclosure Research and PR Accommodation Purpose Fees (formerly Documentation and Communications Transportation Accommodation Fees) are here. In the extraordinary Congress, in addition to asking questions from representatives of each party at the plenary session, we will also ask the ruling party to convene the House of Representatives Budget Committee to hold a debate in the form of questions and answers.

◆Wei Xin: “Mr. Noda can work with us to promote reforms.”

Political reform is a topic on which the opposition parties can reach consensus. In August this year, Noda participated in a study session of the Japan Reform Association as a lecturer. Although there are doubts within the party about the attitude of Noda’s new system towards Weixin, senior Weixin officials hope to cooperate with Mr. Noda. “We can promote reforms together with Mr. Noda.”

Former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda delivered a speech before the runoff election for representatives of the Japanese Constitutional Democratic Party at a hotel in Tokyo on the 23rd (Photo by Yukishiro Hirano)

In addition, he will confront the new government and ask it to investigate the truth about the close relationship between the World Federation of Peaceful Unification Families (formerly the Unification Church) and the Liberal Democratic Party. There were recent reports that former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met with leaders of religious organizations at the Liberal Democratic Party headquarters before the 2013 upper house elections, but the response from the presidential candidates was generally lukewarm. Mr. Noda strongly called for a reinvestigation, saying: “We have no choice but to consider that there is an organizational relationship.”



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