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condition of “twisted Diet”in recent years, the government was criticized as
“the politics which could not make a decision”. Now the ruling coalition enjoys
the majority in both Houses. The Abe Cabinet is going ahead as the Prime
Minister wishes. Some criticizes now the current attitude of the Abe Cabinet as
“the politics which decides too fast and too much”. In the democracy, political
leaders need be sensitive and responsive to how people think of the politics
and government.

The Parliamentary Ca inet and the nctioning of the Diet
Under the Parliamentary Cabinet system, members of the ruling party are
required or supposed to support the Cabinet. Therefore, the checking function of
the Diet by members of the ruling party is likely to be limited. When the
opposition parties are weak, the checking function of the Diet becomes much
weaker. From the view point of democracy, it is not a desirable situation if the
Diet cannot exercise the effective checking function.

At present, the ruling coalition led by Prime Minister Abe is extremely
dominant in both Houses since the opposition is divided into several very small
parties for which taking a united effective action in the Diet activities is not
easy and organizing a strong opposition for the election is not also easy. Small
parties will not be able to get seats in the single seat constituency. People will
be at a loss how to vote in the election.

Many people may not go to vote if they are at a loss. Having one very
dominant party with many too small parties is not at all good for the
appropriate functioning of democracy.

Conditions for Appropriate Sustainable Democracy

As repeatedly pointed out in this paper, having the systems and
organizations is not enough. There must be conditions necessary for the
appropriate functioning of systems and organizations to ensure sustainable
democracy. They are non-systemic or informal conditions such as trustworthy
people in the government, informed active citizens and pro-democracy influential
mass media as well as intellectuals for the well-functioning of democracy.

First, the full understanding of the importance of democracy by the people
in the government is crucially important. If the people in the important positions เอกสารประกอบการอภิปรายร่วมระหว่างผู้แทนจากต่างประเทศ
in the government do not or would not try to understand the importance of the
democracy, it will take much time until the time comes. Understanding the value
of wisdom, energy and potentiality of the general public and importance of