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After the officers liaison meeting held the morning before the LDP general affairs meeting, the second floor secretary general (third person from left) and others hold a press conference on the 1st in Nagatacho, Tokyo.
“It is a method of ignoring party members.” “The remaining period is short and there is no other option.” The PLD presidential elections that followed the resignation of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe were officially abandoned on the 1st and various voices from the members were heard. The metropolitan party, the prefectural government, has announced a series of policies to hold primary elections to determine the fate of local voting. However, dissatisfaction burns, far from the “open presidential elections” as a party.
1:00 pm, 9th floor of the LDP headquarters in Nagatacho, Tokyo. At the end of the undisclosed general affairs meeting that lasted about 1 hour and 45 minutes, the party’s youth director, Fumiaki Kobayashi, a member of the House of Representatives calling for a vote for party members, told reporters : “Honestly, I lost.”
Tokyo Metropolitan Secretary General Naoki Takashima Tokai understands that “the party’s decision is inevitable given the prime minister’s physical condition,” but said: “We cannot ignore the voices of party members.” On the same day, Toren decided to establish his own primary election policy and confirmed that he would cast three votes to the candidate with the most votes. There are about 102,000 party members and friends in Tokyo. Two weeks before the governor’s decision on the 14th, Toren will send a ballot on the 7th without writing the candidate’s name.
The Kanagawa prefectural government has also decided to hold a preliminary round. The presidency, Takanori Doi, the general secretary, said: “The Liberal-Democratic Party is a member of a local party. Originally, you must vote for a member with full specifications.
“I felt like I was deciding on the presidential election without voting for party members from the beginning,” said the male prefectural council member of the Chiba prefectural executive. “We cannot afford to ignore the thoughts of party members who have been rallied so harshly by party headquarters.
Voices of dissatisfaction also come from party members in general. Yasuhiko Matsuoka (64), president of a company in Chuo-ku, Sagamihara city, who has been a member of the party for more than 30 years, said: it’s good for the party. If you do it that way (in the general election) you will always get a bad tip. “
A 74-year-old dentist from Saitama, who has been a member of the party for more than 20 years and supports Shigeru Ishiba, said: “If you can make a preliminary election, you can even vote for a party member. It seems that it has been ignored and I’m not very convinced. ” (Futoshi Okamoto, Hideki Nakatani, Shota Shimura, Taiki Fujikawa)
◆ “Validity matters”
Hiroshi Shiratori, Professor, Hosei University Graduate School (Modern Political Analysis)I understand the procedure of deciding the president in the general assembly of both Houses in case of emergency evacuation because there is a new coronavirus countermeasure, etc. However
(1) It is not the president selected as the true consensus of the PLD members
(2) The president will become prime minister, but he has not received the trust of the people.
The two issues of legitimacy are becoming a problem. It is the legitimacy of the party and the legitimacy of the administration. To guarantee this legitimacy, early dissolution and general elections will be inevitable.
