Candidate Disturbing Others Arrested
The Metropolitan Police Department arrested three members of the Party of Tsubasa with a suspect of disturbing freedom of election. The three members including a candidate are suspected as having interrupted the campaign of other candidates in by-election in Tokyo 15 th district of the House of Representatives in April. It is unusual that a candidate of an election is arrested with disturbance of campaign of others. The arrested members include the head of the party and the secretary general who ran for the election. Those three members are reported to have disturbed campaign speech of other candidates. It is witnessed that they approached to other candidates very closely and separated the candidates from the audience. They are also suspected as chanting words of denouncing using loud speaker or honking at other’s speech. The police recognized that their activities made the audience hard to listen to the speech. Although the police warned them based on the Public Offices Election