Hatoyama should serve as prime minister for 4 years: DPJ`s Okada

TOKYO, Aug. 16 Kyodo -
Democratic Party of Japan Secretary General Katsuya Okada indicated Sunday that
party leader Yukio Hatoyama should serve as prime minister for four years if
the opposition party takes power in the Aug. 30 general election.
''We have presented a four-year road map in our manifesto. If we win the House
of Representatives election, keeping Hatoyama as premier during this period
will be a consensus among the people,'' Okada told reporters in the city of
Chiba.
Okada also suggested that if the DPJ wins power the lower chamber should not be
dissolved before its four-year term is due to end.
The DPJ, the largest opposition party, is seen as having a good chance of
wresting power from the ruling coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party and
the New Komeito party in the upcoming general election.
==Kyodo