Lower House lawmaker Kenji Eda on Monday deserted Your Party, which he helped form four years ago, and took more than a third of the opposition group¡¯s ranks with him to launch a new party.
The breakup of Your Party underscored the worsening turmoil in the opposition camp, which is being trampled by the ruling coalition led by the Liberal Democratic Party.
¡°We will go back to the origin of Your Party,¡± said Eda, referring to the group¡¯s initial call for political realignment as a brand new third force. ¡°The mission of the opposition camp is not to fight each other but to iron out differences over principles to offer an alternative that can counter the LDP.¡±
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