DPP withdraws election candidacy of scandal-hit Shiori Yamao

Mainichi Shimbun

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On the 11th, the Democratic Party for the People announced that it would revoke its official endorsement of former House of Representatives member Shiori Yamao, who was scheduled to run in the proportional representation section of the House of Councillors election. The decision to field her was made at a joint meeting of both houses of the Diet on May 14, but there had been a flurry of criticism online over allegations of infidelity in the past…

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Former House of Representatives member Shiori Yamao (real name Kanno) held a press conference on June 10th announcing that she would run for the July House of Councillors election as a member of the Democratic Party for the People. However, the press conference ended up being a "huge failure," and as a result, on the following day, the Democratic Party for the People announced that Yamao...