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JNP commits hara-kiri to overhaul Japan’s political order
TOKYO. Oct 30: The maverick party that two years ago set off Japan's biggest political upheaval since World War II committed ritual suicide today by disbanding In the Interests of opposition unity, reports Reuter.
The Japan New Party (JNP) used its first and final national convention since Its May 1992 founding to formalise plans to merge into a large political force that leaders hope will complete the overhaul of Japan's political order.
"We didn’t form the JNP to start a 50 or I0O-year dynasty, but to be a child of the era and a limited, project-oriented party." its leader, former Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa. told the Tokyo gathering.
The JNP la not disappear
ing. its moving forward." Hosokawa said the party was "constructively destructing" In the next stage of a political realignment process that began last year when the JNP and its allies ended the 38-year rule by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).
Ten parties of the non-communist opposition, including the JNP. have set December 10 as the day they form a new party to take on the ruling coalition of the LDP. the socialist party of Prime Minister Tomllchl Murayama and the new party Skigake.
Hosokawa accused the ruling coalition of Tacking the courage to undertake thorough reforms" and returning Japanese politics to corrupt years of the past
Ironically. Hosokawa's JNP.
ban voters and consumers Is a vicum of its success in de stroylng Japans political
which enjoyed a meteoric rise by championing neglected pr-
order.
Hosokawa s crowlnr achievement during hIS eight months as Prime Minister of a wobbly eight-party coalition was the passage of laws to completely overhaul the electoral system to introduce more competition and curb endemic corruption.
Despite approval ratings of
Illegal personal financial deal mgs.
His reforms replaced a complicated multi-seat constituency system. In which special-interest-backed candidates with Just over 10 per i nil <>l the vote could have won parliamentary seats, with a highly competitive first past-t he poet system
In the new winner take-all contests, small parties like the
JNP have no choice but to merge with larger groups. Bigger parties also receive more sizeable public campaign funding.
The opposition alliance has been slow to get off the ground, hampered by jiersonal rivalries among Its three former prime ministers and differences between support groups ranging from labour unions to consumers to the religious right.
The unwieldy group has asked the public to suggest a new name. It has struggled to draft policies that clearly set it apart from Murayarmy s coalition. which is having Its own identity crisis
The socialists dropped lib eral policies like opposition to a security treaty with the United States to become part
of the ruling coalition, leading to a split among its members.
The most difficult task for, the JNP and Its allies Is to coordinate candidates for the next election." said Masaharu Nakagawa, a JNP delegate from Mie prefecture.
Hosokawa said he would make sure the grand new party Inherited JNP virtues which he described as "the real of amateurism"* and a simple hand made quality -
Former Prime Minister Tsutomo Hata, leader of the larger Shlneeito party and a guest at the funeral-cum-re-vival rally, was frank about the dilemma Hosokawa s followers now faced.
1 sympathise with the pain that comes from knowing that politics does not move on Idealism alone." Hata said.