Former Your Party Secretary-General Kenji Eda launched his new party Wednesday with 14 fellow defectors hoping to build a viable counter to the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.
They christened the new party Yuinotoh with the tentative English name of Unity Party.
¡°The current opposition camp can¡¯t stop the LDP, which is out of control, and the public thinks the opposition camp is useless,¡± Eda told a news conference after being elected president of the party. ¡°We will change Japan by abolishing bureaucracy-led politics, fighting vested interests and breaking the centralization of power.¡±
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