(VOVworld) – Japan’s Kyodo news agency reported that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is considering setting the House of Councilors election for July 10 and the official campaigning will kick off on June 22. Normally the campaigning begins 17 days before the election, which will be on June 23.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in a meeting in Tokyo on May 31(photo Kyodo/TTXVN)

 

But Senator Tsutomu Sato, who is in charge of internal affairs of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), said the ruling party and other parties in the coalition government plan to move up the kick-off by one day to avoid the memorial for the victims of the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. In this election the coalition government will face criticism for failing in its monetary and financial policies, known as Abenomics.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is expected to announce on Wednesday a decision to defer the date to raise consumer tax from April 2017 to October 2019.