electoral quiet
「選挙のない年」である２０１４年を見込んで安倍政権はたたみかけるように憲法9条の改憲へと突き進んでいっているようです。通訳をやっていた頃には選挙のない年はoff-yearと訳していましたが、「アジア日経」でelectoral quietという表現にあたりました。メモしておきましょう。（UG）
Hurdles ahead for Abe in 2014 despite electoral quiet
TOKYO -- Even in a new year without big elections, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government may find its mettle tested by such bones of contention as the consumption tax, nuclear energy and collective self-defense.
Japan has no major national elections planned for 2014. The next battlegrounds will be in 2015, with nationwide local elections in the spring and the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's presidential election in the fall. The next contest for the Diet's upper house is scheduled for the summer of 2016, while the terms of lower house lawmakers will end that December.
