Article: Over 50 percent of Japanese say they will vote for ruling party: survey


AP Worldstream
09-03-2005
Dateline: TOKYO
About half of Japanese voters say they plan to vote for the country's ruling party in parliamentary elections this month, which would give Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi a wide lead over his main rival, a newspaper poll showed Saturday.

The poll by the nationwide Nihon Keizai economic newspaper, however, showed support for Koizumi's plan to privatize the nation's postal system was slipping ahead of the Sept. 11 ballot for the 480-seat lower house.

The poll, conducted Aug. 31-Sept. 2, showed 54 percent of respondents _ up 2 percentage points from a poll the previous week _ said they would vote for ruling Liberal Democratic Party candidates for the ...

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