Tokyo: Voters in the Japanese Capital Choose the Tokyo City Assembly amid concerns about health risks during the Olympics, opened in three weeks, because the Coronavirus case continues to increase.
In the vote on Sunday, 271 candidates raced for 127 seats.
Voters who meet the total requirements of 9.8 million people in the megacity with a population of nearly 14 million.
Public opinion surveys show that most people want the game to be canceled or postponed again.
Behind his fear was the launch of disadvantaged vaccination, with only about 10% of a fully vaccinated population.
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Yuriko Koike called sick two weeks ago, quoting exhausted, and not seen in public until Friday.
The routine role will be the stump for its party, Tomin First, the largest with 46 seats in the Assembly to the election.
Both Koike and his party push for cancellations, but instead called for fans without fans in the stands.
Organizing Committee said the decision on the restriction of attendance was still studied.
The only authority which clearly advocated the Olympics to be canceled was the Communist Party, which held 18 seats.
Democrats, a leading opposition party, raises questions about the Olympics but encourages other problems in their campaigns, such as economic assistance for those who are injured by Coronavirus.
The Olympics, opening July 23, unite 15,000 athletes and more than 50,000 officials, including sponsors and company officials, and 70,000 volunteers.
Some medical experts have warned it could be a Covid-19 SuperSpreader event, warning new cases in Tokyo, now there are several hundred, can shoot up to thousands.
Olympic members and officials are more likely than the Japanese public to be fully vaccinated.
The ruling liberal Democrats, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, who had previously had 25 seats in the Tokyo Assembly, tended to improve their representation because the momentum of the Koike Party was in a hurry, according to Japanese media reports.
But most people are still hesitant.
Koike, former news anchor, became Tokyo’s first female governor in 2016, and was chosen back to the four-year term in a landslide 2020.
She is a supporter of gender equality, comparing the situation in Japan for “iron plate,” than “glass ceiling.
” Analysts said Koike, previously a member of parliament, might reflect on national politics.
The parliamentary election is expected later this year.
Tokyo chose assembly amid fears of pandemic over the Olympics
