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JCP issues Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly election platform

The Japanese Communist Party Tokyo Metropolitan Committee on June 9 held a press conference in the Tokyo government office building and published its campaign policy for the June 22 Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly election which will officially be announced on June 13.

At the press conference, JCP Tokyo Metropolitan Committee Chair Tanabe Yoshihiko expressed his determination to achieve a major JCP advance in the election as it will open the path for a lower consumption tax, the most effective and reasonable measure to support people’s livelihoods and living standards amid rising prices.

JCP Tokyo Metropolitan Assemblymembers’ group head Oyama Tomoko outlined the JCP election platform and said that the JCP seeks to realize wage hikes that outpace inflation in Tokyo. In order to achieve this, Oyama said that the JCP will urge the Tokyo government to establish a system that will provide a subsidy of 120,000 yen per worker to smaller businesses which carry out pay raises and to introduce a public works contract ordinance which guarantees decent wages to workers working for public works contractors.

Oyama pointed out that with cuts in state remuneration paid for healthcare and nursing-care services, many medical and nursing-care institutions are in danger of being shut down. She said that the JCP in the election campaign will call for the improvement of Tokyo’s program to temporarily provide financial support to private medical facilities. She also said that the JCP will work to provide urgent financial assistance to nursing-care service providers and service providers for people with disabilities.

Oyama stressed the need to tackle the issue of soaring housing costs in Tokyo, and said that the JCP election platform proposes measures to deal with this issue such as by building 50,000 units of public housing for the middle class over the next ten years and shifting the present policy to one increasing the number of metropolitan government-owned housing units. She said that the JCP seeks to introduce a measure designed to regulate large-scale urban redevelopment projects and the resale of homes for speculative purposes, which are major factors contributing to the rising housing costs.