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Senior DPJ campaigner arrested for paying callers for candidate
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| Last Edited | Ralphie Oct 15, 2009 06:11pm |
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| News Date | Friday, October 16, 2009 12:10:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A senior election campaigner for a Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker was arrested Thursday on suspicion of promising to pay money to other campaigners in the Aug. 30 Lower House election, police said.
The DPJ's Chiyomi Kobayashi, who represents the Hokkaido No. 5 constituency and beat former Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura, could lose her Diet seat if the arrested official, Hirokazu Yamamoto, 60, is convicted.
Yamamoto has admitted promising to pay several hundred thousand yen to about 30 people who contacted voters over the phone in support of Kobayashi between May and August in the runup to the general election, the police said.
If someone who led an election campaign on behalf of a candidate is convicted of violating the election law and receives a sentence, even a suspended one, the candidate must also be held responsible.
"It would be regrettable if (the charge) is true," Kobayashi told a news conference Thursday in Sapporo. |
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