With PM Abe calling for a snap general election, Japanese Communist Party Secretariat Head Koike Akira on a TV political debate program “The JCP will call on voters to deliver a severe verdict to Abe’s high-handed handling of politics.”
Japanese Communist Party Secretariat Head Koike Akira in a street speech in Fukuoka Prefecture referred to Aso’s remark and said, “As the Deputy Prime Minister, it is totally irresponsible for Aso to talk about ‘gunning them down’.”
Tokyo Governor Koike Yuriko newly launched the Hope Party (Kibo no To) and emphasized that her new political party is “free of political shackles”. However, her party’s member lineup features those with questionable fetters.
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