Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike, who this week founded a new political party, said Friday she will be selective in adding members from the moribund Democratic Party as candidates in next month's Lower House election.
Koike and Democratic Party leader Seiji Maehara met in the morning after Maehara got consent from his party Thursday to effectively disband, letting its members run with the upstart Kibo no To (Party of Hope), her new party, to mount a hasty but unified challenge to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his ruling Liberal Democratic Party in the Oct. 22 election.
Koike said after the meeting that she received a list of members in the unpopular opposition party who want to join Kibo no To but has "no intention of taking them all on."