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Fukuda wins confidence vote

China Daily | Updated: 2008-06-13 07:43

In a stark reflection of Japan's political stalemate, parliament's lower house yesterday approved a motion of confidence in Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, a day after the upper chamber adopted an unprecedented, but non-binding, censure of the unpopular leader.

The opposition Democratic Party and smaller allies pushed through the upper house censure motion on Wednesday, the first against a prime minister under the current 1947 constitution, in an effort to build momentum for an early lower house election.

But Fukuda has said he had no plan to call a poll for the powerful lower chamber within the year. And while his weekly email magazine made no direct mention of the censure, the opening greeting yesterday was "Never give up".

Fukuda wins confidence vote

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