英語検定ライティング準１級（第506回）

期日前投票「最高裁判所の国民投票の話」

10日もすれば総選挙の開票結果が発表される。今の政権与党は苦しい闘いを強いられている。裏金をお小遣いにする脱税議員は落選した方が良い。先ほど近くの役場で期日前投票をした。私たちの選挙区は前総理の地盤だ。当然だが彼を支持したりしない。不景気に歯止めをかけることができなかった罪は重い。
In about ten days, we would be informed of the voting results about this general elections, in fact, the current government party has struggled to collect supporters’ agreements because numerous Diet politicians have enjoyed their kickbacks, secret money, collected by the fake parties, which is one of their conventional privileges.
Various kinds of ordinary citizens have been angry and furious towards these tax swindlers, who shouldn’t win the general elections because they shouldn’t have the rights to participate in the Diet congresses, he assumes.
In our election districts, there is the ex-prime minister, who has been notorious because he tried to raise the tax rate, which brings ordinary citizens into lethal situations.
We have frequently watched the political movements, where numerous voters have tried to prevent him from continuing one of the notorious Diet members, she says.
He failed to stop the long continuous recessions for three years, and he is absolutely responsible for these issues.

投票用紙は３種類ある。その中に政党に投票する用紙もある。投票したい政党は消費税の廃止を主張する野党だ。一般庶民の生活が苦しいのは消費税の存在だ。それは社会福祉には使われていない。下げた法人税の穴埋めになっている。つまり金持ちを優遇するのだ。それは政権与党だけでなく民主党も同じだ。
When we participate in the general elections, we receive three sorts of voting papers, which might contain a pink paper, and we could write our favorite political party.
Not a few ordinary citizens want to support a certain political party, whose manifestos include the abolition of the notorious consumption taxations, everyone assumes.
We have struggled to make both ends meet every month due to the catastrophic consumption taxations, she says.
About twelve years ago, the prime minister in those days announced that the consumption taxes should be spent to make social welfare even better, which was proved to be something fake, in fact, he cheated and deceived us.
He is the current president of the Democratic Party.
The consumption taxes, actually, have been utilized in order to compensate for the lowered corporate taxes.
After all, the government party has always prioritized the wealthy businesses and profitable corporations, though another political parties have taken the same behaviors.