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Japan's Abe vows to fight hard in election after lower house dissolution

Source: Xinhua | November 21, 2014, Friday | Online Edition

JAPANESE Prime Minister and President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Shinzo Abe said on Friday that he will fight hard in a looming general election shortly after the dissolution of the parliament's lower house.

Abe said his decision to dissolve the lower house aims at letting the Japanese public to judge his choice to delay the second round sales tax hike, criticizing the major opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) only wants to increase its seats in the chamber rather than debating Abe's economic policies in the election.

"What the DPJ wants to do is to add its seats in the lower house. It is mobs' thought and the result will be chaos that occurred during the DPJ government," Abe said after Bunmei Ibuki, speaker of the House of Representatives, announced the dissolution at a plenary of the chamber.

The prime minister also said he will be in the frontline of the election, stressing that one more seats the LDP could secure, the growth of economy and people's life could be more guaranteed.

Government data showed that the world's third largest economy's growth shrank an annualized 1.6 percent in the June-September period for the second straight quarter of decline, suggesting the country slipped in technical recession.

The prime minister admitted on Tuesday that the Japanese economy has yet returned to recovery path.

Abe has said that he will step down if the current ruling bloc could not secure the majority seats in the election.

Yukio Edano, secretary general of the DPJ, however, slammed Abe 's decision to dissolve the lower house as meaningless, saying the "Abenomics" only helped the surge of Japan's stocks market, but left heavier burden to people's daily life.

Edano said the DPJ welcome other parties' lawmakers to join in, referring to the recent split of a small opposition party - Your Party, and added that the DPJ will cooperate with other opposition parties on candidates for the election.

Meanwhile, head of the DPJ, Banri Kaeda, said that the LDP has showed its arrogance and arrogance always lead to failure, referring to LDP's lower house lawmakers' shouts of "Banzai" that disrupted Ibuki's announcement.

Kaeda said the election is an opportunity to correct Abe's policies run against the Constitution, including the approval of the right to collective self-defense and the Special Secrecy Law.

The dissolution came after a cabinet meeting in the morning that the prime minister and his cabinet members approved a resolution to dissolve the lower house. The resolution was also approved by the Japanese emperor before the announcement.

Abe declared on Tuesday to dissolve the chamber on Friday in a move to turn to vote to judge his decision to postpone the planned second sales tax hike by 18 month from October 2015 to April 2017.

Abe is expected to announce the general election agenda later Friday, with the official campaign being eyed on December 2 and vote slated for December 14.

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