The difficult part is just starting. I'm skeptical that the DPJ can make effective use of this failure of the LDP- a failure that was from within, not from any effective attack from the DPJ.
The difficult part is just starting. I'm skeptical that the DPJ can make effective use of this failure of the LDP- a failure that was from within, not from any effective attack from the DPJ.
The DPJ's proportional representation list doesn't give me much hope.
At the top of the list:
#1 committee member for public sector trade union(Jichiro)
#2 NTT trade union rep and Telco/IT union committee member
#3 ex-house of representatives member
#4 ex-Minister for Home Affairs
#5 advisor to the automobile industry trade union(Jidousha Souren)
Some other choice picks
#7 ex-committee member for the teachers' union (Nikkyoso)
#9 ex-committee member for the electrical workers' union(Denryoku Souren)
#10 Committee member for UI Zensen (Textile, Chemical, Food, Commercial, Service and General Workers' Unions)
#12 Committee member for the Basic Industries Workers' Union (steel, mining, shipbuilding, aerospace, industrial machinery, refining, machining, logistics etc)
That and a bunch of ex-national or state politicians. (and 2 local politicians)
Of the 20 who got elected, only two (one, a Buddhist monk, the other the father of professional golfer Sakura Yokomine) are neither politicians or trade unions related.