TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's coalition is on track to win a comfortable majority of 252 seats in the 480-seat lower house of parliament in next week's election and could win up to 300, a newspaper reported on Wednesday, extrapolating from a poll of voting intentions.
The poll by the conservative Sankei Shimbun was the latest to show that voters support plans by Koizumi and his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to privatise the postal system as a catalyst to enact other major economic and social reforms.
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