He praised David Cameron for seeing that the "national interest" demanded coalition with the Liberal Democrats.
The third, championed by the Liberal Democrats, was to get more students from poor families into university, despite the initially daunting higher fees.
In the general election last year that ended five decades of rule by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), the DPJ's manifesto did not even mention the gaping hole in Japan's public finances.
Mr Cameron’s tribe resent as well the prospect of a coalition with Nick Clegg’s Liberal Democrats, or conceding to them on policy in order to win their support for a minority Tory government.
The issue of whether Miyazawa stays or not has cast shadow on the coalition government formed by Keizou Obuchi's Liberal Democratic Party and Ichiro Ozawa's Liberal Party.
Three, under the small selection area system, the super - party' status of the Liberal Democratic Party hasn't been changed yet.
There has been a huge change: as many as 20% of the people turn to the Liberal Democrats by supporting the conservative party.
The Tories' Liberal Democrat coalition partners are keen, as is the Labour opposition, to restore some of the cuts, especially those relating to welfare and clinical negligence.
The support rate of the Liberal Democratic Party dropped at the last minute.
For the witless gutsiness of past policies, it should be noted that the current major opposition party, the Liberal Democratic party, is very much answerable.
First, Mr Cameron would struggle to justify removing Dr Fox after persisting with Vince Cable, the Liberal Democrat business secretary, who barely bothers to hide his distaste for the Conservatives.
There are two political parties in the Executive Yuan, the Scotland Labour Party and the Liberal Democratic Party.
Declaring that he was too flabbergasted by Mr Aso's ineptitude even to be angered, Mr Koizumi all but said the current leader should resign or the Liberal Democratic party should get rid of him.
It is not hard to find Conservative MPs, let alone Liberal Democrats, who are more scathing about the City than Labour's shadow chancellor.
The electoral fate of the Liberal Democratic Party is likely to decline.
In the left's telling, the Tory-led coalition (enabled by what Labour considers the snivelling cowardice of its Liberal Democrat members) is planning cuts of choice, not just of necessity.
Leftish voters, in particular, are furious with the country's third party, the Liberal Democrats, for sharing power with Tories.
Rounding the numbers, in 2005 Labour emerged with one MP for each 27,000 votes cast and the Conservatives with one for each 44,000 (the Liberal Democrats fared worst, with one for each 97,000).
On September 20th Japan's Liberal Democratic Party will elect a new leader to replace Junichiro Koizumi, who will formally stand down as prime minister at the end of the month.
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