Economics
Japan’s LDP, DPP to Hold High-Level Policy Talk Thursday
- LDP needs support after losing coalition majority in election
- Opposition DPP wants tax breaks for part-time workers
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Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party and a small opposition party that holds the key for its fate will have high-level policy discussions on Thursday, raising speculation that Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is negotiating a deal to stay in power.
Yuichiro Tamaki, head of the Democratic Party For the People, said on Wednesday that his focus is on how to achieve policies, especially a tax break for part-time workers, his party’s top policy item. DPP’s Secretary General Kazuya Shimba will meet with his LDP counterpart, Hiroshi Moriyama.