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2015 July 8 - 14 [JCP]

All 4 JCP candidates win seats in Fukushima City Assembly election

All four candidates of the Japanese Communist Party won seats in the Fukushima City Assembly election on July 12, maintaining the party’s pre-election strength in the assembly though the number of total seats was slashed by three.

In the election where 44 candidates contested for 35 assembly seats, the total number of votes cast for the four JCP candidates increased by 1,156 from the previous election four years ago.

During the election campaign, the JCP candidates expressed their intent to voters that they will work hard to block the war legislation now under Diet discussion. Regarding the 2011 meltdown accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, they promised to work to obtain full compensation to the victims, thorough radiation decontamination work by the government, and a Japan without nuclear power. They also pledged to lower burdens of payments for national health insurance premiums and nursing-care service, as well as to have more authorized childcare centers built.

On the following day, the four newly-elected JCP lawmakers held a street speech in front of Fukushima Station, telling passersby that the JCP will work to have the war bills scrapped and to put forward measures to improve people’s livelihoods.

Hearing the JCP assemblypersons speaking, a 77-year-old woman said, “Many of my generation experienced evacuation to the countryside during the war. I cannot tolerate the Abe government forcibly pushing forward with the war bills. I voted for the JCP in yesterday’s election.”

Past related article:
> All JCP assembly members in Fukushima City reelected [August 1, 2011]