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2012 November 28 - December 4 TOP3 [ELECTION]

General election officially kicks off

In the House of Representatives general election campaign which officially started on December 4, the Japanese Communist Party calls for genuine reform of the 60-year-long Liberal Democratic Party-policies in favor of the U.S. and Japanese business circles.

Aiming at obtaining more than 6.5 million votes in the proportional representation constituencies and doubling its current 9 seats, the JCP is putting up candidates at 299 out of 300 single-seat blocks (except 1 block in Okinawa) as well as 35 candidates in proportional representation constituencies. The total number of Lower House seats is 480.

One political party vanished just 5 days after its establishment or another one was founded only 1 week before the election; many politicians continue to scrap and merge their parties.

The JCP, with its nearly century-long history, has proposed and strived to implement reform policies on every key issue affecting national politics, such as the consumption tax, deflationary recession, Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) pact, deployment of U.S. military Osprey aircraft, Senkaku Islands, post-disaster reconstruction, and the Constitution.

The election will be held on December 16, the same day as the Tokyo gubernatorial election.