Small Japan opposition party hints at policy linkup with ruling bloc

Tamaki's party prioritizes boosting people's incomes. It stresses the need for fiscal spending and easy monetary policy to achieve wage growth above the rate of inflation.

Abenomics/New Capitalism deja vu.

More 'urging' to Keidanren to raise wages, more corporate subsidies and welfare, and QE basic income for large asset holders.

Zero new policies from the last 20 years.

Linkup is that for pragmatically reason or philosophical reason?

Tamaki thinks he is sitting in the drivers seat holding all the cards, but just wait, this will backfire on him. His party and the LDP have nothing in common, and his election promises were so egregious cutting the sales tax, lowering income taxes, free education. Nice ideas but where does the money come from? Japan has the highest debt in the world!

The LDP will use him and then discard him when the time is right! Enjoy your 15 minutes Mr. Tamaki!

You can vote LDP or you can vote for the opposition. Doesn’t matter because we’ll link up anyways in the end.

Hey electorate...psych! We don't really stand for anything. Now we're making deals at the big boys' table.

This has been the best election year for me!

In July, Yuriko Koike won the Tokyo Governor's seat.

In September, Yoshihiko Noda won the CDP party leadership.

In October, Shigeru Ishiba won the LDP party leadership.

A few days ago, many politicians from the Abe faction of the LDP lost their Lower House seats.

There’s still one more important election this year: the U.S. Presidential election.

If Trump loses, this election year will be perfect.

Quite Pythonesque.

If the opposition tries to block everything, we can't keep the country going

This goes to show how delusional these guys really are. Let me tell you a secret Tamaki: the country is running despite all the lunatics sitting in the Diet, not because of!

quercetumToday 07:32 am JST

You can vote LDP or you can vote for the opposition. Doesn’t matter because we’ll link up anyways in the end.

1) The LDP won the most seats, and it gets a chance to build a coalition/informal support.

2) The main "opposition" you speak of is the CDPJ, and it will very likely not enter a coalition/link up with the LDP.

3) Whatever the ruling bloc/informal arrangement ends up being, if it doesn't do well the people will vote them out next time and someone else will try.

(Well, I guess it's too much to expect fervent readers of Xi Jinping Thought to understand the basics of democracy.)

There has to be clear quantifiable political change, enabling kick starting comprehensive promised reform.

Employment, taxation, depopulation, childcare, health, education. point that finger

An essential voter demand is political reform, starting with a full independent public inquiry into pollical funding, this toxic LDP slush fund scandal.

The LDP-Komeito coalition does not possess either a mandate, or the public confidence to govern.

Democratic Party for the People head Yuichiro Tamaki could make the situation totally untenable, recklessly propping up unstable government.

A government rejected by J electorate, deemed through the corrupt use of political slush funds, years of failures in office to enact policy promises pledges.

The LDP in its current guise is unfit to lead.

Any mucky back room deals, would politically be akin to rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic.

I mean seriously! Yes!

This is it, it is useless to pretend a political escape route is available.

The parrot is dead, it is a dead parrot, political rigor mortis has set in, gluing the parrot back up on its perch wont bring tweety pie back to life

What a complete disaster at the near horizon, when they first blocked Ms Takaichi and now fully ruin the country with an unstable government which is dependent on anyone's generous random support by not even politically fitting ones out of the also splitted left block. Of course the parliamentarians as a whole still have the option to repair that in time and vote for her regardless of any party memberships and then support her. It's very improbable, but possible and not too late. It's Sanae time, and I guess you already very well know that.

Small Japan opposition party hints at policy linkup with ruling bloc

The small opposition party are just waiting for their chances to form a coalition with the LDP. It's a good way to gain a majority. Assign a few from your party to form an opposition. They are the back up in case you lose the majority.

What a complete disaster at the near horizon, when they first blocked Ms Takaichi and now fully ruin the country with an unstable government which is dependent on anyone's generous random support by not even politically fitting ones out of the also splitted left block. 

Mr. Ishiba is the interim PM. He is there to take the fall. It'll be interesting to see who will be next but it'll be someone from the LDP. So far so good and according to plan. It's hard to move away from a single party government as the junior coalition partner will defer to the senior party.

No doubt backroom dealing. Won't be surprised to see in the news individuals in the DPP caught in some sort of money scandal.

Great the DPP  is a conservative party. LDP will become for conservative.

Voter turnout is still low at also this election despite innumerable political injustices or misrule.

Japanese major media easily misread such as "DPP supported by young generation" as ever, But part of voters who had voted to LDP or "Ishin" party so far just voted to DPP this time.

Actuality of majority of Japanese young generation have been only finding excuse to do not vote despite poverty, Japan's democracy is in crisis.

Sven AsaiToday  12:18 pm JST

What a complete disaster at the near horizon, when they first blocked Ms Takaichi and now fully ruin the country with an unstable government which is dependent on anyone's generous random support by not even politically fitting ones out of the also splitted left block. Of course the parliamentarians as a whole still have the option to repair that in time and vote for her regardless of any party memberships and then support her. It's very improbable, but possible and not too late. It's Sanae time, and I guess you already very well know that.

Not a chance. She's just a mediocre career politician with nothing to offer the public and deeply questionable values, who's closely associated with the LDP elements that were most heavily involved in the slush money scandal.

It stresses the need for fiscal spending and easy monetary policy to achieve wage growth above the rate of inflation.

sell your yen while thou still can