Centrist Reform Alliance (CRA) co-leaders Yoshihiko Noda and Tetsuo Saito on Sunday hinted that they would quit their party posts, following a devastating defeat in the Lower House election.
¡°This devastating defeat is a responsibility worthy of 10,000 deaths,¡± Noda told reporters just after midnight on Monday.
The party lost more than two thirds of its 167 seats in the 465-seat Lower House, retaining only 49 ¡ª results that flew in the face of its pre-election goal of becoming the largest single party in the chamber.
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