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But that was before Mr Kan took over with the (for Japan) radical promise of launching debate on raising the consumption (ie, sales) tax, which at 5% is the lowest in the rich world.
They intervened in differing ways depending on whether they were acting as representatives of the arrondissement (as opposed to the Paris City Council, for example), as sponsors of a local project that they wished to defend, or as chairmen/coordinators of a neighbourhood council (in which case they attempted to launch debate).
It's hardly the first website for political debate — over the past few years, I've talked to several companies trying to launch debate platforms, most recently Politix, the politics-focused service from forum company Topix.
As new techniques for representing the human body bring new fields of diagnosis and treatment into being, they also launch debates about the status, credibility and ownership of the new kinds of information and knowledge attached to the emerging technology.
The product, which officially launched its debate platform app on the App Store today, uses short presidential debate-style videos to elevate the discussion around controversial topics.
And on Friday morning May launched the debate with chutzpah.
Two years ago, Poland and Norway launched a debate on possible NATO efforts toward this end.
The Daily Mail launched a debate on whether women would ever trust men to take it.
But no major Israeli leader, in government or opposition, has publicly raised an objection or launched a debate.
After all, nearly two decades ago when he himself was a baron in the LDP, he first launched the debate about how Japan should modernise long before the political establishment was thinking about it.
