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Article: JAPAN'S LDP INDEPENDENTS EMERGE AS PARTY'S DOMINANT GROUP.
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- AsiaPulse News
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- September 13, 2005
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TOKYO, Sept 13 Asia Pulse - Signaling a post-election change in the political landscape within the party, Liberal Democratic Party legislators who do not belong to a specific faction gained a significant presence in Sunday's election, now occupying the largest number of Diet seats at 95.
Such independents won 68 additional seats in the lower house, bringing the total there to 88, and command seven seats in the upper house as well.
Most of the independents elected Sunday applied to run on the party's ticket in the party's first-ever public recruiting program initiated by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. While being freshman lawmakers, these new LDP ...