Proposal of the referendum by which the Tokai Daini Nuclear Power Plant will be restarted
The draft referendum, which asks whether the Tokai Daini Nuclear Power Plant in Ibaraki Prefecture should be restarted, was voted on by the standing committee of the Ibaraki Prefectural Assembly on the 18th and rejected by a large number of opponents. It is expected to be rejected at the plenary session on the 23rd of this month.
The draft referendum to ask if the Tokai Daini Nuclear Power Plant should be restarted is due to a citizen group submitting to Ibaraki prefecture last month a signature of more than 86,000 people, which exceeds the number of laws required for direct billing. , The prefecture submitted to the prefectural assembly.
On the 18th, the "Joint Examination Committee" was held by two standing committees, and invited the opinions of Mayor Osamu Yamada of Tokai Village and the representatives of the citizens' groups who directly requested the establishment of the ordinances as witnesses.
In the discussion that followed, each parliamentary group expressed its opinions, the Ibaraki Liberal Democratic Party, the prefectural forum, and the Komei Party, which are the largest parliamentary group of the prefectural assembly, opposed the draft regulations, and the Communist Party and the Constitutional Democratic Party expressed their support. Then, a vote was taken at the committee to which the draft regulations were referred, and the vote was rejected by a majority of 2 people in favor and 7 in opposition.
The ordinance will be voted on at the plenary session on the 23rd of this month, but it is likely to be rejected because the majority of seats in the prefectural assembly are occupied by the LDP, and it is likely that the referendum will not be implemented.