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Bring postal reform foes back in, Abe tells LDP
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| Contributor | Ralphie |
| Last Edited | Ralphie Oct 25, 2006 12:36pm |
| Category | Statement |
| News Date | Oct 25, 2006 12:00pm |
| Description | Prime Minister Shinzo Abe instructed Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Hidenao Nakagawa on Tuesday to study readmitting some of the postal "rebels" who voted against Junichiro Koizumi's postal privatization legislation last year.
Abe told reporters he asked Nakagawa to "consider what kind of cooperation (the LDP) can have with those who voted for me in the prime ministerial election" in the Diet.
Abe was clarifying for the first time as LDP president his attitude toward the more than a dozen former LDP members in the House of Representatives, obviously relieved by the party's victories in two Lower House by-elections Sunday.
After Koizumi refused to let the 37 Lower House opponents of the postal bills run as LDP candidates in the September 2005 general election, 13 retained their seats as independents, including 12 who voted for Abe as prime minister. Including those who lost their seats in the election, 17 former LDP members will return to the party en masse, sources said earlier.
However, Koizumi reportedly said in a meeting with a senior LDP official at the Diet on Tuesday, "The LDP will lose in the Upper House election if it depends on those who have ties with post offices." |
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