ABC NEWSでは衆院解散の記事のおよそ半分を使って民主党の見解を 伝えていましたよ。
"We've been steadily making efforts for this day," Democratic Party leader Katsuya Okada told his party members. "Now we have finally came to this opportunity to change the government."
Proponents of the reform said it was needed to put the postal saving system's massive deposits into the hand of private investors and provide a strong jump-start to the economy, which is only now emerging from a decade-long slowdown.
Privatizing Japan Post, which has $2.9 trillion in savings and insurance deposits, would create the world's largest bank.
Those funds have financed the massive public works projects central to the LDP's pork-barrel system, while the network of unionized postal workers has long proved a bastion of support for the party.
Opponents, including some in his own party, argue that privatization would reduce postal services in rural areas and lead to layoffs among the 400,000 postal system workers. They also say the new, giant bank would drive private financial institutions out of business.
Some opponents also said they were tired of Koizumi's heavy-handed attitude.
"It is extremely abnormal to tell lawmakers to vote for the bills or Parliament will be dissolved," said Tatsuo Kawabata, secretary-general of the opposition Democratic party.
The vote could change the face of Japanese politics if, as some predict, the LDP splits in nationwide elections with members opposing the bills forming a new party.
Under Japan's parliamentary system, the Cabinet can dissolve Parliament and call elections. Koizumi is targeting the 480-member lower house because it is the more powerful of the two houses and it is the chamber that chooses the prime minister.
The 242-seat upper house is largely ceremonial and it is highly unusual for it to reject legislation already approved by the lower house. The LDP has a majority in the lower house, but needs coalition partner Komeito Party to control the upper house.
Parliament's more powerful lower house approved the privatization bill last month by a razor-thin margin.
俺はＡＢＣを見直した。（っつーか、一応毎日見てるアメリカの放送局はこことＣＮＮしかないんだが）
日本の傀儡マスコミよ、ジャーナリズムっていうのは、予想屋や旗揚げ競争じゃないんだ。
たとえ結果が違うことになっても、真に国民の利益を考えて「民営化」が本当にやるべきことなのか、本当のことを伝えたらどうなんだ。
ピヨピヨお利口なほうに付いて、エスパーになろうとしてるんじゃねえ！！！！
断り書き：管理人は勝手に民主党を応援しているのであって、管理人のひどい性格及びむちゃくちゃな言動は、民主党と何の関係もありません！！
自分のために自民以外に入れてね★
（共産が勝てそうなところなら共産父さんでもいいが、それ以外の地域で自民が勝ったらどうなるか良く考えて。）
ＡＢＣワールドニューストゥナイト のアンカーマン、ピーター・ジェニングス氏が亡くなられたようだ。
ガン告白してから４ヶ月くらいだったな・ ・・・・合掌。
