OSAKA — A day after the Lower House was dissolved for the June 25 general election, Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, along with 26 others, has been blacklisted as a candidate unfit for winning a seat in the Diet.
According to the list disclosed Saturday by the Citizens' Union, Construction Minister Masaaki Nakayama and Yuko Obuchi, a daughter of late Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi, are also considered unfit to become lawmakers in the coming poll.
About 30 citizens' groups in the Kansai Region formed the Citizens' Union in April to launch an effort to stop unfit candidates from winning Lower House seats in the light of eight criteria they had set. The criteria includes involvement in crimes, injustice and corruption, or those who lack common sense.