Japan 対立 部隊s as snap 選挙 rumours 渦巻く
Japan's two major 野党s 合併するd Thursday and elected a new leader, Yukio Edano (L), as they try to 強化する their standing ahead of a possible snap 国家の 選挙
Japan's two major 野党s 合併するd Thursday and elected a new leader as they try to 強化する their standing ahead of a possible snap 国家の 選挙.
The 判決，裁定 自由主義の Democratic Party will 選ぶ a 後継者 to 去っていく／社交的な 総理大臣 Shinzo Abe next week, and several 最高の，を越す political 人物／姿／数字s have 示唆するd the next leader may call a quick 選挙.
The 野党s and several 独立した・無所属 国会議員s 正式に 固く結び付けるd an 同盟 in 返答, becoming the 憲法の Democratic Party of Japan, and elected 声の Abe critic Yukio Edano as their new leader.
"Now our true 戦う／戦い begins," Edano said after his 選挙.
"If they (the 自由民主党) 避ける 十分な 政策 審議s and 解散させる the 議会 for their own selfish 推論する／理由s, let us take on the fight and serve as the 代案／選択肢 choice fo r 投票者s," he said.
The new 圏 命令（する）s 149 seats in the 国家の 国会, compared with the 支配的な 自由民主党's 394 国会議員s.
The 自由民主党 投票（する）s Monday on their new leader, who is 確かな to 勝利，勝つ a 議会の 投票（する） two days later and become the country's next 首相.
Abe 助言者 and 長，指導者 閣僚 長官 Yoshihide Suga is 広範囲にわたって 推定する／予想するd to 勝利，勝つ the 投票（する）.
He has been circumspect on the 可能性 of a snap 選挙, to which the 自由民主党's 連合 partner is 報道によれば …に反対するd.
But Defence 大臣 Taro Kono told an international online event Wednesday that he 推定する／予想するd a 投票（する） next month.
にもかかわらず the new 配合, Japan's 対立 is still 見解（をとる）d as fractious and weak.
And public 感情 に向かって the 対立 remains coloured by the experience of the now-消滅した／死んだ Democratic Party of Japan, which held 力／強力にする from 2009-2012.
Endless infighting within the party -- 含むing during the 2011 津波 災害 and the Fukushima 核の 炉心溶融 -- 悪化させるd 政策 missteps and flip-flops that saw them 投票（する）d out.
The 自由民主党, which has 治める／統治するd Japan for all but a handful of years since it was formed in 1955, returned to 力／強力にする in 2012 with Abe at the 舵輪／支配.
