Sentence examples for diet election from inspiring English sources

Since his success in the Diet election last year, Abe has talked about liberalizing electricity markets, improving corporate governance and undertaking tax reform.

For if reforms do not look like proceeding, the opposition could strengthen its hold over the Upper House of the Diet in elections this summer.

Edward I. Koch, the three-term New York City mayor and one-time candidate for governor, recalled that his political consultant, David Garth, made him go on a diet before every election.

But that presence was thrown into doubt when the opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) seized control of the upper house of the Diet (parliament) in elections in late July.

Also last week, Japan's refuelling ships and the destroyers that protected them arrived home, their mission ended by the stubborn intransigence of the opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), which won control of the upper house of the Diet (parliament) in elections in late July .Thismonth Mr Abe's successor, 71-year-old Yasuo Fukuda, made his first trip as prime minister to Washington, DC.

Generally, the election of Diet members is controlled by statutes passed by the Diet.

Drained of influence and written off by his own party, a single weapon remains with Mr Aso: when to dissolve the Diet and call the election.

For the first time the LDP is not the biggest party in the upper house of the Diet (parliament) after an election in which half the seats were contested.

Second and more profoundly, an electorate that has for years returned a divided Diet at nearly every election has at last given a single party a mandate (see article).

He even ran (unsuccessfully) for the Diet in September's elections.

The revelations of Nosaka's involvement in Yamamoto's death shocked the JCP, already reduced to six seats in the Diet after the 1991 elections.