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New center-left party launched in Japan ahead of vote

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TOKYO Oct 03, 2017 - 12:00 am GMT+3
by Oct 03, 2017 12:00 am

A splinter group from Japan's biggest opposition camp on Monday announced plans to create a new center-left party, the latest change in the nation's political landscape ahead of an election.

Yukio Edano, deputy head of the Democratic Party (DP), said he would form the new party with like-minded members after the former main opposition group imploded last week.

DP leader Seiji Maehara announced last week the party would not field candidates in the October 22 poll, joining forces with the new "Party of Hope" formed by popular Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike in a bid to topple Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. While Koike is trying to unite opposition forces, she has reportedly rejected DP members that oppose a bigger role by the nation's Self-Defense Forces.

"Unfortunately, the policies and philosophy of the Party of Hope are different from the direction of the policies and philosophy which we are aiming at," Edano told reporters. The party will be called the Constitutional Democratic Party.

Abe last week called the snap election, seeking a fresh term at the helm of the world's third-largest economy. He hoped to capitalize on a weak and fractured opposition to sweep back into power, as polls had shown him regaining ground for his hawkish stance on rising tensions with nearby North Korea.

But Koike stole his limelight by launching her party with the criticism that the pace of much-needed reforms under Abe's government is too slow. Opinion polls have shown that 34 percent of Japanese plan to vote for Abe's Liberal Democratic Party while 19 percent favor Koike's new party. One quarter of those polled were still undecided.

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