Support for opposition parties grows ahead of upcoming election: poll

Support for the main opposition party, the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, and other parties out of power is growing steadily against that of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party ahead of the general election on Oct. 27, a Kyodo News survey showed Sunday.Although 22.6 percent of respondents said they plan to vote for the LDP in the proportional representation segment of the election, 14.1 percent supported the CDPJ, narrowing the gap between it and the LDP to 8.5 percentage points from 14.0 points in the last survey, results of a nationwide telephone poll conducted Saturday to Sund…READ FULL ARTICLE