Noda wins presidential election of main opposition CDP | The Asahi Shimbun

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1. This guy is trying to pivot the CDP to the right and says he is against career politicians… as someone who himself is a former prime minister who was in charge of what was considered a very weak CDP leadership period back in the early 2010s.

   This is probably the opposition’s best chance for a win in the next year or two, and they are showing that Japan just can’t break it’s relationship with crusty, conservative dinosaurs – regardless of party.

2. Fucking pathetic even in the opposition the geriatric corpses of administrations past have to prevent parties from ever moving on from the time when they were in charge and absolutely had the best administration ever (lost 250 seats)

   Kenta Izumi wasn’t the most inspiring leader in the world and the CDP were not polling 2009 levels of opposition support despite LDP dissatisfaction but there wasn’t any reason to change leaders, any time the opposition had gone into an electoral challenge they won, including stunning results like winning a seat in Shimane for the first time ever, handily defeating Isshin to cement their lead opposition status outside of Kansai and making inroads into Tokyo seats.

   Those are signs of positive administration that the CDP has decided to ruin because failed leaders are hurt by the suggestion that someone else could possibly be succeeding. Even if you were to get rid of Izumi to spark more active support for the party it should be to a new candidate for a new CDP, someone like Yoshida.

   But both Izumi and Yoshida fell behind the prime minister who saw one of the largest loss of seats in Japanese political history and the last CDP leader who already failed to make any gains on LDP dissatisfaction.

   I hope that whoever takes over the LDP isn’t a Trainwreck because clearly Japan will be stuck with their administration for more years to come

3. It’s sad but if you look at polls a lot of people support him, I think it’s important to understand that the views of the party leader do not necessarily reflect all of the party members, if this guy can manage to get the CDP in power by appealing to the centrists or center-right, then he probably will have contributed a lot to the Japanese left wing just by making the LDP lose.