Campaign for the election for Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly has just begun

On June 14th, the official camaign for the election has just started. Last election was four years ago when Democratic party had won and occupied the majority of the assembly, followed by the historical victory for the lower house of the national election done one month after the Tokyo assembly election. This time, how many seats Democratic party can keep occupying is what people are looking at, after the desaster of the national lower house election held last December. The election date is July 12th. The result is expected to bring significantly affect to the upper house election which is also expected to be hold on July,too/ Untill then, you'll see a lot of speeches done by major politicians, standing on the campaign cars, particulary in front of the train stations.