Another prime minister of Japan in the pillory.
Patricia Souza Tokyo, July 11 .- The dat at the polls of ruling Democratic Party of Japan, only ten months after historic elections sweeping leaves in a compromising situation to Prime Minister Naoto Kan, the fifth this country has had since 2006.
The partial elections to the upper house held today in Japan were a test for Khan, who assumed power on 8 June after the abrupt, sto credits, resignation of his predecessor, Yukio Hatoyama, and in September must renew his mandate as president of PD.
The failure has been resounding: his party has lost control of the Senate, renewing half of its 242 seats, for a reborn Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which is less than a year after evacuation of half a century Executive power., tera gold,
A supposedly weakened LDP most a greater number of senators that a theoretically powerful political force, but in his short stay in power has shown the same dcts as the rival of inexperience love, indecision and poor communication skills.
This has increased the skepticism of the Japanese electorate with a political class that has been paraded five heads of government in just, jumpgate evolution credits, four years, since September 2006.
The position of Naoto Kan, 63 years, is now vulnerable within their own party, which swept the general elections of August 30, 2009 promising change for Japan under the leadership fleeting Hatoyama.
If Hatoyama fell last month for failing to fulfill the campaign promise to withdraw from Japan a U.S. military base controversy, the problem has been its insistence Kan during the campaign on the need to raise indirect taxes, unpopular issue in these times of crisis.
Khan wants to raise the consumption tax from 5 to 10 percent, still low compared with European-scales to address the very high public debt in Japan, doubling its GDP and is the largest in the industrialized world.
The election result today is not strange for a country which since 1989 has not been the same party control both houses alone in the Diet (parliament), but what is striking is how fast the PD has squandered the extraordinary political capital made in the elections that gave an absolute majority in the House.
These votes allow Kan and PD continue to rule in Japan, as the House of Representatives prevails on the High and is critical to the core issues, such as the choice of prime minister or the approval of the budget.
But now the ruling power must juggle taking forward their bills in the Senate, where the opposition could undermine and delay its approval, as has happened in the recent past in Japan.
All with the added difficulty that Khan has to face a new election for president of the Democratic Party in September, when concluding the mandate of his predecessor Hatoyama, and at that time will increase criticism from opposing sides.
Today, after learning of his dat, Khan blamed the election result to poor transmission of its message about tax increases, while rule out resigning to keep fighting for his economic ideology.
But the saber rattling politics has returned to Japan, which since 2006 has beenfirst five ministers, besides Kan: Shinzo Abe, Yasuo Fukuda, Taro Aso and Yukio Hatoyama, the last of all, the only choice on the ballot by voters.