民主党：DPJ holds first meeting of Kaieda’s reshuffled Next Cabinet


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2014/09/26
DPJ holds first meeting of Kaieda’s reshuffled Next Cabinet

Tetsuro FUKUYAMA, Chair of Policy Research Committee

On September 26, the DPJ held the first meeting of Kaieda’s reshuffled Next Cabinet, or shadow cabinet.

At the opening of the meeting, DPJ President Banri Kaieda, in his capacity of Next Prime Minister, urged the assembled members to be united as one, saying “During the extraordinary Diet session, we will respond to our public mandate and be the voice of the people, putting their questions to the Abe Cabinet. In particular, we should express our direct opposition to revision of the Worker Dispatching Law, which will worsen labor conditions. Compiling party policies toward next year’s unified local elections is also an urgent task. In addition, I would like you to discuss policies to be included in the party Manifesto for the next general election. Starting from today, I want us to unite as one, to go head to head against the Abe Administration and ensure that our voices reach the Japanese people.”

Next Chief Cabinet Secretary, Tetsuro Fukuyama, called for the cooperation of the assembled members, making the following key points:

(1) The DPJ, under the leadership of Kazunori Yamanoi, Next Minister of Health, Labor, and Welfare, should confront the Abe Cabinet on the issue of the deregulation of labor-related laws.

(2) The Next Cabinet should undertake an inspection of Abenomics, and the results of this should be shared amongst the members of the Next Cabinet, starting with Seiji Maehara, Next Minister of Finance and for Financial Services (Concurrently Chair of the General Research Committee on Administrative and Financial Reform) and Renho, Next Minister for Administrative and Regulatory Reform.

(3) Policy dialogue has been initiated with the policy chiefs of various other opposition parties, and I would like us to sincerely react to proposals made by other opposition parties.

(4) I would like us to begin the preparation of local manifestos for the unified local elections and the party manifesto for the upcoming national elections.