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Fukuda resigns from pro-constitutional revision parliamentary league

 

   Prime Minister Fukuda Yasuo on November 12 resigned from a pro-constitutional revision parliamentary league, according to his office response to Akahata on the same day.

 

   Fukuda was listed as a gvice presidenth of the Parliamentary League to Promote the Enactment of a New Constitution in its list of officials made public on November 8. Akahata has asked Fukudafs office to confirm the information.

 

   It is serious for a prime minister to serve as an official of an organization with the aim of constitutional revision because the Constitution obliges ministers to protect it.

 

   The officialsf list was published when this group held an urgent meeting to discuss the best way to revive the pro-constitutional revision movement that received a severe blow caused by the abrupt resignation of Abe Shinzo, an ultra-rightist politician in favor of constitutional revision, as prime minister.
  - Akahata, November 13, 2007




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