Sunday, March 6, 2011

Japan's prime minister rejects early elections

Tokyo (Reuters) .- Japanese Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, has refused to hold elections in advance, despite the opposition and his own party are asked to take urgent measures to overcome the stalemate in the process of approving budgets state for the next year in Japan's Parliament. "I'm not thinking about dissolving the Lower House," Kan said at a session in the legislature, thus ruling out a call early elections.

While he said that, if necessary, choose between one of the solutions envisaged in the Constitution, leaving the door open to future actions. In the past year, rumors about a possible resignation of 'premier' have increased as its popularity has dropped, now located in its lower levels, with a roughly 20 percent.

In this context, even the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), which owns, urges him to resign. So, Shinji Tarutoko, a lawmaker from the ruling formation, has offered to happen to the president, in the case before he leaves office. "I will report whether the prime minister Kan resignation, although there will be a vote of the party," he said in a television Japan.

Tarutoko, 51, was beaten by Khan in a similar referendum held on June 5, although it was supported by the followers of former secretary general of the DPJ Ichiro Ozawa, the leader who fought in the primaries of the past September. For his part, Minister of Finance, Yoshihiko Noda, one of the allies 'Premier', has considered these comments Tarutoko are "too premature", since it is not clear that the government crisis is resolved with the departure of Kan, due to strong opposition in Congress.

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