<figure id="attachment_458917" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-458917" style="width: 4000px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="e306f871"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2026/02/2422a301d989b28946c20908338d63f6.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-458917" class="wp-caption-text">Kamiya Munehide, the leader of the Sangen Party, expresses anger at being rejected to join the &#8220;National Council.&#8221; &#8230;&#8230;</figcaption></figure>
<h2> He also said, &#8220;Our leap forward will support the Takaichi administration.&#8221;</h2>
 Where is the Sangseito, headed by Munehide Kamiya (48), headed?
 He has refused to participate in the so-called &#8220;National Council,&#8221; a nonpartisan conference to discuss and debate the issue of consumption tax cuts and tax credits with benefits. Kamiya said in X
 &#8216;The [government] council does not agree with the tax credit with benefits, so they won&#8217;t allow us to participate in the National Council.&#8217;
 I am concerned that they will end up fixing the consumption tax and raising the rate of that tax.
 He continued, &#8220;I am concerned that in the end, the consumption tax will be fixed and the tax rate will be raised. The Sangseito had proposed the phased abolition of the consumption tax.
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 The party&#8217;s secretary general, Councillor Yutaka Ando, wrote in an X
 We have no choice but to expose the true nature of the consumption tax in the Diet and on the streets, instead of holding a &#8220;national assembly&#8221; with only those factions that agree with the ruling party,&#8221; he wrote in X.
 The LDP has declared that it will &#8220;retaliate.
 In the recent lower house elections, the LDP won a huge 316-seat victory, far exceeding its single-seat majority. This means that the LDP can pass any number of bills if it so desires. The first thing Takaichi&#8217;s LDP did was to discuss measures against high prices and, by extension, tax cuts, which he had promised during the campaign.
 To this end, they set up a bipartisan national assembly, but at the first step, they &#8220;cut off&#8221; parties that were not in favor of the tax credit with benefits.
 Political commentator Harumi Arima told this website, &#8220;The Upper House Party is a party that is in favor of the consumption tax credit,
 The LDP, which advocates a two-year consumption tax cut only for foodstuffs, is inevitably weak in its argument when it comes to debate. It would be bad if the public were to say, &#8216;Wouldn&#8217;t the councilor party&#8217;s argument be better?
 This is why they left it out of the National Council,&#8221; he analyzes.
 The distance between the LDP and the Sangseito is ambiguous.
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 Initially, the Sangen-jokai sent a love call to the conservative Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (64). In a hanging interview on January 11, before the lower house election, Kamiya said
 In a hanging interview on January 11 before the Lower House election, Kamiya said, &#8220;It would be better if the Sangyo-party took a leap forward in order to realize the policies that Prime Minister Takaichi wants to pursue.&#8221;
 Our leap forward will support the Takaichi administration.
 He even went so far as to say, &#8220;Our leap forward will support the Takaichi administration.
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<h2>Trouble between Supporters and Anti-Syndicalists</h2>
 Later, however, the opposition to the Takaichi administration&#8217;s policy of &#8220;accepting immigrants&#8221; turned into a confrontation. In the Lower House election, Kamiya supported not only the constituencies of LDP members who were &#8220;anti-Takaichi&#8221; but also 190 others across the country, and was ridiculed by some as &#8220;a heron cheering for Takaichi.
 After the election, Kamiya commented on his distance from the administration.
 &#8220;Because we are an opposition party, we are not opposed to anything.
 He emphasized that he was &#8220;not opposed to anything because we are an opposition party, but we will face each policy as it comes.&#8221; &#8230;&#8230;
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 A source in the ruling party said
 A source in the ruling party said, &#8220;There have long been concerns among the LDP&#8217;s heavyweights about the idea of an upper house party. Prime Minister Takaichi also does not feel comfortable being treated as a &#8220;political party&#8221; in terms of ideology. He may not be actively involved in the future.
 He is not comfortable with being treated as an &#8220;ideological ally&#8221; of the Upper House Party.
 What we need to keep an eye on in terms of the future of the Koichi Liberal Democratic Party and the Sangseito is the issue of election interference. During the House of Representatives election, anti-government groups crowded into the Sangen party&#8217;s town halls and obstructed their speeches, causing trouble.
 In a speech he gave in Osaka City on February 22, Kamiya said.
 I am going to ask the (Takaichi) administration about this at the plenary session. I&#8217;m asking whether this kind of thing can be left unchecked. It is not about us, but about the rights of the listeners, so we must protect their rights. As a nation governed by the rule of law,&#8221; he said.
 As a nation governed by the rule of law,&#8221; he said. In fact, on the day of the meeting, a group of anti-voters &#8220;interrupted&#8221; the meeting.
 I wonder how Prime Minister Takaichi will respond to Kamiya&#8217;s request for countermeasures against election interference. If he responds with superficial words, the Sangyoin party may finally turn the helm to an &#8220;anti-Takaichi&#8221; position.
 Although it has declined from a period of time, the &#8220;enthusiasm&#8221; of the Sangen-tei supporters is still alive and well. In the recent lower house election, he received approximately 4.2 million proportional votes. When Mr. Kamiya gives a speech, an audience of about 1,000 people immediately gathers.
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 The trouble between supporters and detractors is really frightening. Adults are arguing loudly with each other with their faces as close as five centimeters apart. If you touch them even a little, they get heated, saying, &#8216;It&#8217;s violence. During the election period, the police were sometimes called to the scene, but they were swearing at the police officers as well.
 In the current Diet session, the Sangen-joken party is in the position of a &#8220;loser&#8221; in that it has not been approached by either the opposition or the ruling party. How will the party &#8220;deepen&#8221; under the charismatic figure of Munehide Kamiya?

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 The Sangseito increased its number of seats in the Diet from two before the announcement of the election to 15. However, the Sangseito was not invited to the National Assembly established by Prime Minister Takaichi, and the representative of the Sangseito, Munehide Kamiya, is outraged. ......

The “National Council” has also excluded the Upper House Party from the election.

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