Dissent from within and outside the party over LDP endorsement of Sugita Mio for the Upper House election: Why the LDP endorsed her: Asahi Shimbun

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Dissent from within and outside the party over LDP endorsement of Sugita Mio for the Upper House election: Why the LDP endorsed her: Asahi Shimbun

Former House of Representatives member Mio Sugita, who has been selected to run in the proportional representation district of the House of Councillors election this summer as an official candidate of the Liberal Democratic Party, has been met with objections and concerns from both within and outside the party. Sugita, who was found to have violated human rights by legal authorities in the past for discriminatory posts, has been officially endor…