No. 1376 Let’s Fight for Victory of Constitution-Supporting Candidates, showing Potential of New Socialist Party!
The voting day will come October 27 for the general election. This is an election that the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has decided promptly so that it could win before the opposition forces may not exert united, full strength. Let’s break through this evil intention so that the ruling bloc cannot attain the majority of the seats in the House of Representatives. Let’s change the government!
LET’S MAKE BEST EFFORTS UNTIL THE LAST MOMENT!
Politics managed with money – this is the biggest contentious point of the current election. Many of analysts say that a possibility has become murky to make the ruling bloc reduce the number of parliamentary seats below the majority and to alternate the government; it is because the Constitutional Democratic Party (CDP), the biggest opposition political party, is shaken up tremendously and the united opposition front decays, leading to splitting candidates into groups.
Is it a cost for democracy?
If the opposition camp is defeated in this election, that means politics managed by money will continue: funds composed of contributions from business entities in the name of party tickets and the official grant, or tax money, called the Political Party Subsidies provided by the law.
In other words, people-voters will admit the position of the LDP; that ‘it costs money to carry out political works. This means expenses for democracy. Thus, the practice should be approved.’ That is to say, the Japanese society accepts that big businesses and the ruling bloc, including the LDP, are allowed to be connected with each other.
Explanations were made when the small constituency election system was introduced; the new arrangement would dissolve criminal connections of politics with money and realize the two-big political party system that could be altered from one to another. In fact, however, neither of them has been proven right. We must assert a fair and just election system which does not need much money in which candidates from small political parties and independentists can be fielded. Let’s revoke the current small constituency election system, too!
Let’s make utmost efforts to change the government until the last moment! The ‘LDP’s organizational political crime’, which is not limited to the scandalous money. Let’s continue to accuse intensely the ruling bloc of its politics connected with money.
Defend principles of joint struggle!
Unfortunately, the CDP has been overwhelmed. Their pledge on the national security issue lies in the following statement;
‘Stable diplomacy and national security lie in the US-Japan military alliance as a basis with pursuit of an exclusively defensive stance. Intensification of defense capabilities integrating new domains and improvement of war-continuing potential.’
This represents expansion of military build-up in favor of increasing military expenditure. It is unreasonable.
The biggest objective of the joint struggle of opposition political parties with civic groups lies in abolition of the so-called national security legislation to realize constitutional principles. That is to advocate constitutionalism. Let’s make the greatest efforts so that the joint front may not be collapsed and the principal pledge may not be forgotten.
Concretely speaking, let’s arrange a scheme; in the constituency election, voters should ballot for constitutional candidates, whoever is from the CDP or the Communist Party. It is citizens who stay in the crucial position in the movements and support the constitutional opposition parties. We must stage campaigns in which candidates express his/her political stance to oppose military intensification, protect people’s lives and suspend development of nuclear power generation.
Let’s show up our potential!
Let’s work so that the Social Democratic Party (SDP) can increase its seats in the parliament and voters can recognize clearly the New Socialist Party (NSP) through these campaigns. A camp of the SDP and the NSP is small. But we can show a path in which the constitutional opposition bloc should pursue after triumph and in which people can rely on the administration. To this aim let’s work hard!
いよいよ衆議院総選挙の投票日10月27日が、目前に迫った。自民党が野党の足並みがそろわないうちにと打って出た選挙。よこしまな思惑を打ち砕き自公過半数割れ、政権交代を実現しよう。
「政治と金」が最大の争点の今回の総選挙だが、立憲民主党の動揺を主因に野党候補が乱立し、自公過半数割れ・政権交代が遠のくとの分析が多数を占める。
民主主義の費用か
この選挙で立憲野党側の敗北は、政治資金パーティという実質的な企業献金や政治活動費という名で税金も含む政党助成金を政治に使う政治を存続させる。
つまり、「政治に金がかかるのは、民主主義のコスト・費用だから認められるべき」という自民党の主張を国民が認めること。大企業と自民党などは癒着していいと社会が認知することを意味する。
小選挙区制度は、政治と金の癒着を解消し、政権交代可能な二大政党制を実現すると言われた。いずれの主張も、根拠を持たないことは明らか。小選挙区制の見直しはもちろん、小政党や無所属も立候補可能な「お金のかからない」公平・公正な選挙制度の実現を主張しよう。
そのために、裏金問題にとどまらない「自民党の組織的政治犯罪」である政治と金を徹底的に追及し続け、政権交代を実現するために最後まで奮闘しあおう。
共闘の「本旨」守る
残念ながら、野党第１党・立憲民主党の動揺は甚だしい。今回の安全保障公約は「専守防衛に徹し、日米同盟を基軸とした安定した外交・安全保障。新領域を統合した防衛能力の強化、継戦能力の向上」であり、軍拡賛成・軍事費増反対では理屈が通らない。
市民と野党の共闘の最大の目的は、安保法の廃止と憲法を守り、立憲主義を守ることだ。その本旨を忘れさせず、市民と野党の共闘を崩させないよう最後まで努力しよう。
具体的には、小選挙区で支援する候補者が立民であろうが共産党であろうが、その運動の中心にいるのが野党共闘を支える市民であることを認識してもらえる体制を作り、各地の候補者に大軍拡反対、国民生活を守る、脱原発を進める政策を訴えてもらうことを追求しよう。
党の存在意義示す
そして、その運動を通じ、社民党の議席増と新社会党を認知してもらうことにつなげよう。新社会・社民の陣営は小さいが、政権交代を果たした立憲野党の目指すべき方向、国民の期待に応える政策を指し示す存在であることを示そう。
英訳版↓
No. 1376 Let’s Fight for Victory of Constitution-Supporting Candidates, showing Potential of New Socialist Party!
The voting day will come October 27 for the general election. This is an election that the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has decided promptly so that it could win before the opposition forces may not exert united, full strength. Let’s break through this evil intention so that the ruling bloc cannot attain the majority of the seats in the House of Representatives. Let’s change the government!
LET’S MAKE BEST EFFORTS UNTIL THE LAST MOMENT!
Politics managed with money – this is the biggest contentious point of the current election. Many of analysts say that a possibility has become murky to make the ruling bloc reduce the number of parliamentary seats below the majority and to alternate the government; it is because the Constitutional Democratic Party (CDP), the biggest opposition political party, is shaken up tremendously and the united opposition front decays, leading to splitting candidates into groups.
Is it a cost for democracy?
If the opposition camp is defeated in this election, that means politics managed by money will continue: funds composed of contributions from business entities in the name of party tickets and the official grant, or tax money, called the Political Party Subsidies provided by the law.
In other words, people-voters will admit the position of the LDP; that ‘it costs money to carry out political works. This means expenses for democracy. Thus, the practice should be approved.’ That is to say, the Japanese society accepts that big businesses and the ruling bloc, including the LDP, are allowed to be connected with each other.
Explanations were made when the small constituency election system was introduced; the new arrangement would dissolve criminal connections of politics with money and realize the two-big political party system that could be altered from one to another. In fact, however, neither of them has been proven right. We must assert a fair and just election system which does not need much money in which candidates from small political parties and independentists can be fielded. Let’s revoke the current small constituency election system, too!
Let’s make utmost efforts to change the government until the last moment! The ‘LDP’s organizational political crime’, which is not limited to the scandalous money. Let’s continue to accuse intensely the ruling bloc of its politics connected with money.
Defend principles of joint struggle!
Unfortunately, the CDP has been overwhelmed. Their pledge on the national security issue lies in the following statement;
‘Stable diplomacy and national security lie in the US-Japan military alliance as a basis with pursuit of an exclusively defensive stance. Intensification of defense capabilities integrating new domains and improvement of war-continuing potential.’
This represents expansion of military build-up in favor of increasing military expenditure. It is unreasonable.
The biggest objective of the joint struggle of opposition political parties with civic groups lies in abolition of the so-called national security legislation to realize constitutional principles. That is to advocate constitutionalism. Let’s make the greatest efforts so that the joint front may not be collapsed and the principal pledge may not be forgotten.
Concretely speaking, let’s arrange a scheme; in the constituency election, voters should ballot for constitutional candidates, whoever is from the CDP or the Communist Party. It is citizens who stay in the crucial position in the movements and support the constitutional opposition parties. We must stage campaigns in which candidates express his/her political stance to oppose military intensification, protect people’s lives and suspend development of nuclear power generation.
Let’s show up our potential!
Let’s work so that the Social Democratic Party (SDP) can increase its seats in the parliament and voters can recognize clearly the New Socialist Party (NSP) through these campaigns. A camp of the SDP and the NSP is small. But we can show a path in which the constitutional opposition bloc should pursue after triumph and in which people can rely on the administration. To this aim let’s work hard!
October 23, 2024