| |
| | PM - Koizumi expected to call snap election |
 | | Junichiro Koizumi has staked his political career on the plan to break-up and sell-off the country's post office, but the plan was defeated in the Upper House of the Diet this afternoon, after a number of Government MPs voted against it. |
 | | Mr Koizumi is expected to go ahead with his threat to call the snap election, likely to be on September the 11th. |
 | | TAKASHI INOGUCHI: I think it is basically against the way in which the Prime Minister has been trying to legislate this bill without consulting the Governing Party, the Liberal Democratic Party, fully and that is a revolt against a somewhat, you know, dictatorial, too strong leader, our Prime Minister. |
| www.abc.net.au /pm/content/2005/s1432889.htm (659 words) |
|