July 27, 2010
The Liberal Democratic Party is aggressively advocating an increase in the consumption tax by interpreting the House of Councilors election results to its own advantage.
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2010 July 21 - 27 [POLITICS]
LDP accelerates move to increase consumption tax |
The LDP insists that the reason why the party achieved a major advance in the House of Councilors election was because voters accepted the party call to increase the consumption tax rate.
Former Finance Minister Ibuki Bunmei reportedly said to party executives, “If a consumption tax hike had been the key issue of the election, we would have suffered big losses.”
In the July Upper House election, the LDP actually obtained a record-low 12 seats in the proportional representation election since the introduction of the proportional representation system. The number of votes cast for the LDP decreased by 2.47 million from the 2007 House of Councilors election.
In an opinion poll released by Manichi Shimbun on July 26, 52 percent were opposed to a consumption tax increase while 45 percent agreed. Meanwhile, 71 percent of respondents said that they do not want the LDP to come back to power again.
- Akahata, July 27, 2010
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