
Tomoko Tamura, leader of the Communist Party of Japan, questioned the government's election introduction, saying that the election results did not represent the public opinion of Okinawa, causing controversy
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There has been a long-standing controversy over the relocation of the US military base in Okinawa. The current governor, Tamaki Denny, had previously taken legal measures to block the construction of the Henoko base. The election ended the 12-year rule of the anti-US military base camp in Okinawa.
The votes for the governor election of Okinawa Prefecture in Japan were opened yesterday (13th). Genta Fuchetse, recommended by six political parties including the Liberal Democratic Party and a former deputy mayor of Naha City, defeated the current governor Danny Tamaki with more than 420,000 votes, ending the 12-year rule of the anti-U.S. military base camp in Okinawa. In response to Tamaki Dani's disastrous resignation, Tomoko Tamura, the leader of the Japanese Communist Party, accused the Taka City government of making a big move to introduce the election, and repeatedly emphasized that the election results "do not represent the public opinion of Okinawa."
According to comprehensive Japanese media reports, the 66-year-old Danny Tamaki was seeking re-election as the governor of Okinawa, but yesterday he lost 276,060 votes to his opponent Genta Furusha's 423,124 votes. Reports pointed out that the results of this election may end the current Okinawa government's attempt to use legal channels to prevent the US Marine Corps from moving from the Futenma base to the new facility "Henoko" on the main island of Okinawa; after Koshe Genta officially comes to power, the military may also expand the use of local airports and ports.
Tomoko Tamura, the leader of the Communist Party of Japan, who was interviewed by the media in Tokyo, strongly criticized Okinawa's 12-year change in political parties. Tomoko Tamura emphasized that she believed that Danny Tamaki's failure to complete his third term was a "very unacceptable" result. At the same time, she questioned the Taka City government's "abnormal intervention" in this election in order to overthrow Tamaki, claiming that six political parties, including the Liberal Democratic Party, continued to spread false information against Tamaki through the community during the election.
In addition, when reporters asked whether this defeat would affect the unified local elections next spring and the future opposition and opposition in the central political arena, Tomoko Tamura responded: "If you think about why this election has been so unusually involved by the Takayama City Government, you will find that Okinawa is the biggest focus of creating a 'country capable of waging war.'" She once again criticized the Takayama City Government for using despicable means to introduce elections, which endangers Japan's democratic system.
Some reporters asked whether Tamaki's defeat meant that the people of Okinawa Prefecture had expressed their opinions on issues such as approval or opposition of the new base construction through the election results. Tamura Tomoko strongly refuted this, believing that the election results did not represent public opinion. Instead, she believed that the contradiction between this and the people's desire for peace will further expand in the future. "We must transform the results of this election into a force against the struggle to "build a country capable of waging war."
After Tamura Tomoko's speech was exposed, a large number of Okinawan people and Japanese netizens started to criticize, "It is obvious that they were elected through elections, but they still insisted on finding fault, and it turned out to be the Communist Party." "This kind of consistent and self-centered behavior and thinking is so powerful that it makes people dumbfounded to a certain extent. ”, “It does not reflect at all on what it lacks or what it has done wrong, and only knows how to shift the responsibility to others. This is what the Communist Party is.”

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