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Shiozaki says Abe will stay no matter election outcome
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuhisa Shiozaki vowed Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will not be asked to resign no matter how the coalition fares in the July 29 Upper House election at a press conference, Tuesday morning, the Mainichi Shimbun reports.
“Upper House elections are not elections to select an administration. And this time is no different,” Shiozaki told reporters. While the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) at times have replaced the prime minister after defeat in the upper house election, Shiozaki said those cases had been decisions the administration of the time had taken, and not standard procedure.
LDP’s policy chief, Shoichi Nakagawa, also made a statement on Tuesday in favor of the PM continuing his mandate. “This is not a national election linked to the (Lower House) vote to name a prime minister. The issue of whether or not the prime minister steps down belongs to a completely different sphere,” he said at a news conference at the Foreign Correspondent’s Club of Japan.
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