EGN NEWS DESK
With political reform one of many prime points within the Sept. 27 Liberal Democratic Party presidential election, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi proposed a brand new unbiased company to manage political funding and campaigns as he introduced his candidacy to steer the ruling party on Tuesday.
By coming into the race, he turns into the fourth individual to have formally declared a bid to change into LDP president, and by default, Japan’s subsequent prime minister.
“The use of political funds is opaque and it’s necessary to extend transparency and eradicate grey areas (on the place the funds go). I’d wish to suggest that an unbiased administrative company modeled after the U.S. FEC (Federal Election Commission) be thought of, and that or not it’s given a monitoring and supervisory operate,” Hayashi, 63, mentioned.
