Comrades, we will rule locally!

[SovietSupreme]

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Red revival
Communists become Japan’s strongest political opposition in the provinces
The Economist -- April 17th 2015
Japanese voters went to the polls last weekend in local elections that set few pulses racing: turnout was the lowest on record and the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), the dominant partner in Japan’s ruling coalition, cruised to victory predictably, winning over half the nation’s prefectural assembly seats. But another political success did surprise: the Japanese Communist Party (JCP) emerged as the country’s largest opposition at the local level.
The JCP took 136 seats, knocking the centrist Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ)—which ran the country just five years ago—into fourth place behind Komeito, the LDP’s coalition partner. The result followed notable gains made by the JCP in a general election in December, when they took more than 6m votes, bringing up their share of parliamentary seats from 8 to 21: the party’s best showing in nearly two decades.
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[Wage Slave]

I think it's a protest vote. Someone I know well told me she voted communist in that election as a way to register a protest safe in the knowledge that they won't gain any real power. That will change fast if it looks like they are getting anywhere.

Bit like people voting UKIP in the UK out of disillusion with the political status quo, except fewer of them really believe in the party they are voting for.

[Coligny]

Wait, the elections are tomorrow, no ?

And this link is 9 days old...

Halp... Brain hurtz...

[Wage Slave]

Perhaps it varies a bit from area to area but we had local elections here a couple of weeks ago. Mrs Slave dutifully toddled off to the local elementary school and voted commie.

[Coligny]

Perhaps it varies a bit from area to area but we had local elections here a couple of weeks ago. Mrs Slave dutifully toddled off to the local elementary school and voted commie.

Ok. So for once it seems to be one of those reported "ermagerd everybuddy doin this in the Japans" trend that is actually more or less really happening...

/bought a Che Guevara T-Shirt to mominlaw for hahanohi.
//the girl can cook a mean borsh too...