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Members of the ruling camp say they recognize that now.

What the ruling camp will propose specifically is not clear.

By then, demands for change were louder than ever within the ruling camp.

Even within the ruling camp, however, some politicians question the wisdom of the trip.

The ruling camp also holds an overwhelming majority in the more powerful lower house.

But the opposition accused the ruling camp of forcing its will on the people.

For that very reason, in difficult times like these, even when politicians in the ruling camp want to make changes, they can't.

The ruling camp's pitch has not changed since December.

It has even been rejected as undesirable by many politicians in the ruling camp.

The ruling camp has promised to audit the vote yet claimed the result is "irreversible."

The announcement represents a complete reversal of the positions that the ruling camp had been maintaining for more than a year.

For now the focus of attention is on conflict within the opposition, rather than confrontation between the opposition and ruling camps.

The sort of divisions now worrying the ruling camp were underlined when the Government arrested half a dozen student leaders a few weeks ago.

But the opposition calls the process rigged in the ruling camp's favor, and it has demanded direct presidential elections instead.

Abe's ruling camp controls the lower house but lacks a majority in the upper house.

Despite strong results for coalition partner Kōmeitō, the ruling camp could not defend an absolute majority (64 seats).

While the opposition insists on direct presidential elections, the ruling camp calls for an elected Parliament that would then pick a prime minister.

“If the ruling camp doesn’t handle this properly, it could become a Korean Watergate.

Seeking to attract voters back to the ruling camp, Yosano took a swipe at the opposition's spending plans.

Direct elections, as the opposition demanded, were advocated by some in the ruling camp, but they were a distinct minority.

But they think they may be able to establish sufficient cohesiveness to pry concessions from the ruling camp.

We need a change," said Luciana Esteruelas, a hotel employee who voted against the ruling camp. "

Once again, politicians and neutral commentators expect the ruling camp to retain its grip on power and perhaps even to tighten it.

His choice of words pointed up the frequent references here to "people power," made mostly by the opposition but also by some in the ruling camp.

Charges Against Opposition But the anti-Government forces are not clean either, according to the ruling camp.