Riding the wave of his newly gained clout following last month¡¯s general election, Democratic Party for the People leader Yuichiro Tamaki presented to Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Wednesday his party¡¯s energy policy proposal ¡ª which includes the building of more nuclear power plants ¡ª ahead of the government¡¯s triennial revision of its national energy strategy.
Tamaki¡¯s meeting with Ishiba came amid growing momentum for cooperation between the opposition DPP and the Ishiba-led ruling coalition on economic policy and tax reform. It¡¯s rare for the leader of an opposition party to hold one-on-one talks with the prime minister over a specific policy.
¡°Rather than framing it as an either/or between renewable energy and nuclear power, I believe it is extremely important to strengthen all stable power sources, particularly those we can produce domestically, from the perspective of energy security,¡± Tamaki told Ishiba after handing him his party¡¯s proposal.
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