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IAG JAPAN AUG 2021 96 versus all of those opposed to an IR, but given the flood of candidates, there is a real possibility that none will be able to accumulate the legally required 25% of valid ballots. In the event the candidate with the most votes does not reach the legal minimum, a 14-day notice of opposition period will be established for voters and candidates, and if there are no declarations, another election will be held within 50 days. If the reelection also results in no candidates fulfilling the legally required number of votes, the above procedure will be repeated until these conditions are fulfilled. In a recent example, the 2018 Ichikawa city mayoral elections in Chiba prefecture took four months to reach a decision on a new mayor. In the case of Yokohama, the application period for an IR to the national government is to run from October 2021 to April 2022. This means the final deadline is eight months after the August election. As agreement by the city council is mandatory for application, there is really only about six months’ grace. While the possibility is low, if reelections continue for too long, it’s not impossible for them to proceed past the central government’s IR application deadline. In such a melee, the incumbent mayor is usually considered to hold an advantage, although there is no telling what will happen in this election. Kanagawa, the prefecture in which Yokohama is located, is the electoral powerbase for not only Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, but also a fair amount of the cabinet, including Taro Kono (Minister of Administrative Reform) and Junjiro Koizumi (Minister of the Environment). 再選挙の可能性 現実的に見て、現職の林氏と反対派候補数名の争いになる であろうが、候補者が乱立しているため、いずれも法定得票数 である「有効投票数の4分の1以上」の票を得票出来ない可能性 も考えられる。 最多得票者が法定得票数に満たない場合は当選者無しとな り、有権者や候補者に14日間の異議申立期間が与えられ、申し 立てがなかった場合、それから50日以内に再選挙となる。さら に再選挙でも法定得票数を満たさない場合は条件を満たすま で上記の手順が繰り返される。近年では2018年の千葉県の市 川市長選が再選挙となり、市長が決まるまで実に約4カ月もか かった。 もしこのパターンが横浜市で起こったらどうなるであろうか？ 市から国への申請期限は2021年10月から2022年4月まで、つま り8月の市長選から約8カ月後が最終期限である。市では議会 JAPAN Realistically the race will come down to Hayashi versus all of those opposed to an IR. 現実的に見て、現職の林氏と反対 派候補数名の争いになるであろう。