Koizumi Calls Snap Election
Japan’s Prime Minister Koizumi today called a snap election for Sept 11 for the lower house, in hopes of winning a new mandate.
The decision to call a snap poll came after ruling party rebels in parliament’s upper house joined the opposition to defeat bills to privatise Japan’s vast postal system — the core of Koizumi’s agenda for change. Koizumi is betting that a purge of those anti-reformers from the Liberal Democratic Party, which has ruled Japan for most of the past half century, will allow him to forge ahead.
Source: Calcutta Telegraph.
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