CDP’s Izumi challenges Kishida to dissolve the House of Commons, Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan leader Kenta Izumi clashed with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Wednesday, demanding he dissolve the House of Commons for early elections over the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s handling of the slush scandal. fund.
“You said you will deliver results step by step. If you consider the revision of the Political Funds Law as one of the results, then you will not get approval,” Izumi told Kishida in a parliamentary debate among party leaders, urging the prime minister to turn to voters . “It is time to ask the people’s judgment.”
It was the first time since taking office that Kishida debated other party leaders.
