EGN NEWS DESK
The Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan heads into Monday’s presidential election with hopes of electing a brand new chief who can each unify the completely different teams inside it and work with different opposition events, presumably as a ruling coalition after the following common election.
But with three of the 4 candidates being party veterans with completely different concepts on the best way to accomplish these targets, and public opinion polls displaying the CDP — the principle opposition party — as being nonetheless far much less common than the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, it’s not clear how profitable the winner will likely be in turning these hopes into actuality.
A latest Jiji Press ballot of CDP nationwide lawmakers confirmed former Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, 67, main the opposite two major candidates, former chief Yukio Edano, 60, and present chief Kenta Izumi. But among the many CDP’s regional officers, the three are in a good race.
