Campaign Policies: Political Reform
Campaign for general election of the House of Representatives started on October 15 th . What kind of policies are the parties advocating? I am looking into them for three days. The first is on political reform. The general election 2024 is mainly about whether voters approve the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, which revealed its inappropriate managing of political funds in some factions. It found 85 lawmakers or designated candidates for next election. Some of them left the party, and others declined to run for next election. But 45 out of 85 still sought to run for the election. The LDP dropped 11 members from its slate. While it approved other 34 as official candidates in single-seat constituencies, the party newly led by Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba removed them from the list of proportional representatives, which would be working for resurrection of losers in single-seat constituency. The opposition parties accused the LDP of fielding as much as 34 members who had been invol