A challenge for Team Mirai is how the fledgling Japanese opposition party should confront the administration of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, also head of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.
There is a view that the LDP and its coalition partner, the Japan Innovation Party (JIP), are taking advantage of Team Mirai to secure a majority vote in the House of Councilors, political watchers said. The ruling bloc lacks a majority in the upper chamber of the Diet, Japan¡¯s parliament.
At its first party convention since its establishment, held in Tokyo on Saturday, Team Mirai reaffirmed its stance of cooperating with both the ruling side and other opposition parties on a case-by-case basis to realize its policy pledges, with an aim to ¡°update¡± the country¡¯s democracy using digital technology.
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