197 total votes for Secretary-General Aso Tarō
- 65 votes from the prefectures
- 16 votes from the Aso Faction
- 73 votes from all the LDP Diet members not in factions, assuming they all voted for Aso, which they did not,
means at least
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43 disloyal, naughty little faction members.
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2 comments:
How are they naughty? Is there some evidence that faction members were required to vote anything but their own preference?
Ross -
I think my negative assessment arises from the fact that factions are not described in the Liberal Democratic Party constitution.
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