Your Party will stress its call to freeze the upcoming consumption tax hike and promise to abolish all nuclear power plants by 2030 when the campaign for the Upper House officially starts Thursday, party leader Yoshimi Watanabe said.
"We'd like to say to voters, 'please don't lose hope in politics,' " Watanabe told The Japan Times and other media outlets during a joint interview Wednesday. "If they give up, the Liberal Democratic Party and New Komeito will win a big victory."
With the support rate for the LDP-New Komeito alliance remaining consistently high, according to public opinion polls, observers are predicting a big victory for the ruling camp in the July 21 election.