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Constitution Day video message to right-wing group forum
Comments on the “emergency” clause of the proposed amendment
Asahi poll “I don’t need to rush” 72%
A man wearing a mask walks the streets of Koinobori, a koi-shaped flag that wishes children’s health and growth on Day 2 in Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo / AP Yonhap News
On the third day of Constitution Day, which commemorates the implementation of the Japanese peace constitution, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed his intention to use the spread of the Corona 19 infection to push for the “constitutional amendment.”
In a video message sent to the Constitutional Forum, an event organized by right-wing organizations on the 3rd, Abe said: “What role can the nation and people overcome in a crisis in an emergency? And I realized that the important task is how to reflect this in the Constitution. ”
Prime Minister Abe said in 2017: “I want to make 2020 the year that the Tokyo Olympics will be held” as the new constitution. The following year, the 2018 Liberal Democratic Party proposed four important amendments to the current constitution, adding provisions for the existence of the Self-Defense Forces and empowering the Cabinet to establish an ordinance (enforcement decree) that has the same effect as the law. In an emergency. The main objective of the Abe government constitution is to add provisions to the Constitution to support the existence of the Self-Defense Force. The objective is to dilute the meaning of Article 9, which stipulates “Abandon war and prohibit the Armed Forces”, within the core of the current constitution called “Peace Constitution”. Until the Corona 19 incident, the new provision of emergency supplies was not a very popular item.
In the video message, Prime Minister Abe said in a video message: “I must achieve the constitutional amendment. The resolution was not shaken at all. “However, the public response was not favorable: from March 4 to April 13, 2053 voters across the country (based on respondents) conducted a poll by mail, saying: “There is no need to rush to discuss the revision of the Constitution in the National Assembly. Opinion reached 72%. Only 22% said:” I have to hurry. “Regarding emergencies, 57% of respondents He said: “It is better to respond without changing the current constitution.” (NHK) In a telephone survey of 1,560 (respondents) over three days from 3 last month, 32% of respondents said “the current constitution needs to be revised “was higher than 24%. However, regarding article 9 of the article” Abandonment of war and prohibition of maintaining the armed forces “, there was more” no need “(37%) than” 26% “that said” needs to be checked. ”
Meanwhile, the number of deaths from infection at Corona 19 in Japan exceeded 500, with 517 at 10:30 am on Day 3. The emergency announced by the Japanese government will be officially decided for a month on the 4th.
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