The significance of the forthcoming election

The Hashimoto Administration preaches the reforms of financial structure, administration, financial system and social security, but his politics is still bureaucracy-led with the greatest stress on the financial restructuring. Thus, it makes light of the people's living and force burden to the people under the pretext of reforms. Therefore, the economy is seriously on the decline with increasing anxiety about employment and living.

We believe that we should say good-bye to the bureaucracy-led politics of the LDP, which is characterized by the protection of vested rights and the postponement of necessary measures. We have to now create a society where all levels of the people are participating toward a bright future.

Rengo has been making efforts to create an environment where new political forces can gather together centring on policies that attach importance to lives of working people and can take the helm of state.

The forthcoming election will be an opportunity to actualize the change of regime. The election will be an important step for the change of regime and will be a challenge to obstruct a majority by the LDP and to realise the people-centred politics

Just at that moment, some of the opposition parties have decided after discreet discussions to form the new Democratic Party prior to the election. Rengo give a warm welcome and gives its full support to the new party.

Basic approaches

1. The creation of new political forces to actualize the people-centred politics has been materialised by the establishment of the new Democratic Party. Rengo will tackle the election by expanding the new political power centred on the new party, viewing the next general election and local elections.

2. To put it concretely, Rengo will conclude with the new Democratic Party agreements on policies and will support the Party in order to promote actualizing Rengo's demands about policies and institutions. On the other hand, Rengo will continue the cooperation with other cooperating parties in the election on the individual basis.

3. Rengo will actively promote the participation in politics of its 800 million members and their families who earnestly work and pay taxes. At the same time, Rengo will call for the participation of the people at all the level in creating a new stream of politics and will for this purpose make efforts to pick out talents.

4. In the constituency election, Rengo will make its best effort for Rengo-recommended candidates to be elected. In the proportional election, Rengo will support the new Democratic Party.