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The Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), which came to power with a promise to stamp out old patronage politics, is now engaging in a more explicit form of pork-barrel elections than the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).
DPJ Secretary-General Ichiro Ozawa stumped in Nagasaki for a DPJ-backed candidate in the Nagasaki gubernatorial election campaign, saying, "If you elect X, we will be able to build a highway here."
DPJ's hypocrisy on pork-barrel politics comes straight from 'Animal Farm' -
Seeded on Mon Mar 8, 2010 3:07 AM EST
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