Sometimes, intra-party discord totally loses me. In the case of this article, I'm uncertain of the actual meaning of a couple of areas so took a guess on the actual meaning based on the surrounding context. So...your guess is as good as mine if anything was lost in translation.
自民党:林芳正氏の衆院 くら替えめぐり内紛 山口で
自民党の林芳正政調会長代理（参院山口選挙 区）の衆院くら替え問題が、山口県連から党本 部を巻き込んだ内紛に発展している。林氏は９ 月の党総裁選への立候補をにらんで次期衆院選 で山口３区からの立候補を探るが、３区選出の 河村建夫元官房長官が猛反発している。党執行 部は２２日、くら替えは認めないと県連幹部に 伝えたが、総裁選の構図にも影響を与えかねな い事態になっている。
「現職の参院議員の衆院へのくら替えは基本 的に認めない。これは党本部の方針だ」
自民党の大島理森副総裁は２２日、党本部で 石崎幸亮（よしすけ）・県連会長にこう通告。 だが、石崎氏は会談後も記者団に「河村氏が比 例に回り、林氏を３区から出してほしいという のが県連の主張だ」と訴えた。河村氏も記者団 に「３区で全力投球でやってきた」と真っ向か ら反論した。
山口２区は党支部長が７月の山口県知事選に 立候補を表明したのを受け、林氏に２区での出 馬要請があったが、林氏はこれを拒否。父であ る林義郎元蔵相の中選挙区時代の地盤に３区が 重なるとの事情もあるが、こうした林氏の態度 に河村氏が一層反発する構図だ。
http://mainichi.jp/select/news/20120823k0000m010070000c.html
LDP: Internal struggle over Yoshimasa Hayashi changing jobs to Lower House in Yamaguchi Prefecture
The internal discord over the issue of Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)’s policy research council chairman’s representative Yoshimasa Hayashi (Upper House Yamaguchi district)) changing seats to the Lower House has grown from the Yamaguchi regional party branch to involve the party headquarters. Hayashi is seeking to be the candidate for the Yamaguchi 3 rd District seat in the next Lower House elections, with an eye towards candidacy for party leadership elections in September, but is being hotly opposed by current 3 rd district seat holder former Chief Cabinet Secretary Tateo Kawamura. On the 22 nd , party leadership notified the prefectural party executive that a change of jobs will not be permitted but the reality that this may have an impact on the composition of the general election can’t be denied.
“It is a foundational principle of party policy that a currently standing Upper House member is not permitted to move to the Lower house.”
Tadamori Oshima, deputy president of the LDP delivered this message to prefectural party chairman Yoshisuke Ishizaki at party headquarters on the 22 nd . After this meeting, Ishizaki told members of the press, “Representative Kawamura is supported by the majority and the prefectural party chapter wants Hayashi out of the 3 rd district.” Kawamura also showed his direct opposition, telling reporters, “I’ve given everything in the 3 rd district.”
When party leadership received the Yamaguchi’s 2 nd district representative’s announcement of his intention to run in the Yamaguchi prefectural governor race, it requested that Hayashi run in the 2 nd district but Hayashi refused. During the era of Hayashi’s father, former finance minister Yoshiro Hayashi, his support base was centered around the current 3 rd district and this is another key element driving Hayashi to oppose Kawamura.
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