The World - News from May 27, 1986

Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, hoping to remain in power, won agreement from rival leaders of his ruling party for a special session of Parliament. The session would enable Nakasone to dissolve Parliament and call a quick election for the lower house, timed on the same day in July as a scheduled vote for the upper house. The head of the ruling party is automatically named prime minister, but Nakasone’s Liberal Democratic Party forbids a third term for its leader. Nakasone, whose second term as party leader ends in October, reportedly hopes that a strong election showing will persuade party leaders to change the rule in his favor.