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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?

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To: American Spirit who wrote (12346)	7/30/2007 8:23:10 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	of 224748

Japan's Democrat PM loses election but refuses to step down. Evidently liberal looneyness is an international phenomenon. >TOKYO (AP) - JAPAN'S prime minister rejected calls for his resignation today but said he would reshuffle his Cabinet in the wake of a humiliating election defeat. Shinzo Abe said he took yesterday's result "very seriously" but added it was his duty to continue as premier and push forward his Liberal Democrat Party's reform agenda. His defiant stance came after polls left the opposition Democratic Party of Japan as the largest party in the upper house for the first time. "The election results were severe for the LDP, and I bear all the responsibility as head of the party," Mr Abe said after the upper house elections. "But my responsibility is to fulfil the duty to fully achieve economic recovery. Voters said we must reflect on our shortcomings and refresh the line-up," Mr Abe said. "I plan to reshuffle the Cabinet and top party posts at an appropriate time." Public anger over millions of missing pension records and a series of political scandals stripped the LDP of its majority in parliament's 242- seat upper house, while giving the opposition huge gains. The LDP remains in control of the lower house and so still controls the government but the defeat was clear proof of Mr Abe's tumbling fortunes and a dramatic reversal of the massive support he enjoyed after taking office in September. This morning newspaper editorials urged Mr Abe to resign. "Voters gave a clear failing mark," Asahi said. "The prime minister should face the results seriously and step down." Mr Abe, 52, promised to build a "beautiful Japan" when he became the country's youngest prime minister and he won points for mending strained diplomatic ties with South Korea and China. But his honeymoon was short-lived. Reform minister Genichiro Sata stepped down in December over charges of misusing political funds. In May, the agriculture minister killed himself amid allegations he also misused public money. In the final straw for voters, Mr Abe brushed off warnings by the opposition last year that pension records had been lost. In the spring, it emerged about 50 million claims had been wiped out.<

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