Later - The number of votes against the motion has passed 241, 50% +1 of the full chamber. Kan is still prime minister.
Even later still - Matsuki Kenko voted for the motion. His career in the party is over.
And even later still - The final vote is 152 For, 293 Against.
A commenter asks the obvious question whether this was all a set up. A few days ago, that was the way I saw it. Then I lost faith.
I have still have a few things to learn...among them what will happen to Ozawa and all the others who were not present. Will Okada really carry through on his threat to toss the 18 abstainers out of the party?
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* Yokokume, a proportional seat member of the DPJ, tried to resign from the party. However, DPJ Secretary-General Okada Katsuya refused to accept his resignation.
"Will Okada really carry through on his threat to toss abstainers out of the party?"
ReplyDeleteHe had damn well better, or the DPJ leadership will have been revealed to be all smoke and no fire. That will come back to haunt them at the next election.
I think Kan and Okada need to come down on Ozawa like the wrath of God and kick his backside out, and tell Hatoyama in no uncertain terms that he is to keep his mouth shut unless someone in the Cabinet tells him to speak.
ReplyDeleteSeriously, what the hell was all this for, anyway?