People: Vote and Case

people: For this to happen, one quarter of the eligible electorate or around 290,000 people had to vote for one of the three options for or against relocation or a third choice of neither, according to Asahi Shimbun. In any case, the vote is non-binding on the central government and turnout appeared to be hovering around 50%, raising questions about what effect the referendum will have. It was not immediately clear whether sufficient numbers of opponents had turned out to meet the threshold required for Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki to respect the result of the symbolic referendum. The central government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has vowed to press on with moving the base and the relocation is also backed by Washington. It was initially planned as a yes-no vote, but a neither option was added after several cities with close ties to the central government threatened to boycott the vote. The ballot asked residents whether they supported a plan to reclaim land at a remote coastal site for the relocation of the Futenma base from its current location in a heavily populated part of Okinawa. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.