Prime Minister Fumio Kishidaa has benefited from high abstention. Only 55.79% of the 106 million voters voted to decide 1,051 candidates, including only 17% of women.
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The Liberal Democratic Party (PLD) moves back but does not yield. The legislative elections in Japan, Sunday, October 31, were completed on a slight subsidence of power training, without depriving it by the majority of the 465 seats in the Lower House of Parliament. With his ally, the Komei Party, the PLD provided a “stable majority” of more than 270 seats. However, the coalition has not equaled the 305 elected representatives in the outgoing assembly.
Fumio Kishida, the Prime Minister entered on October 4nd after being elected by the presidency of the PLD, welcomed the result, see “a very important testimony of trust for the government”. He also took note of the decline observed, “the reflection of the four years elapsed” since the last legislative.
The lapel also reflects the decline in the PLD support rate due to its contested management of the CVIV-19 pandemic and its economic consequences. For this vote, the party had to handle several tight duels and suffer some significant setbacks like the former Minister of the Environment, Nobuterus Ishihara, Tokyo, or that of Akira Amari in the department of Kanagawa, south of the capital. Amarari is the number two of the party and a centerpiece of the Kishida Administration.
The PLD has campaigned on a conservative classical program, calling for a revision of the pacifist constitution, a doubling of defense expenditure and strengthening of alliances to counter the rise of China and the North Korean threat.
Economically, Mr. Kishida promised to “put in place a new capitalism allowing a rebuilding of the middle class” and said ready to unlock 30 000 billion yen (227 billion euros) on Five years for research and innovation, while maintaining the objective of carbon neutrality by 2050.
Amer defeat for the opposition
The defeat is, on the other hand, for the opposition because the fold of the PLD has especially benefited from the party of the restoration. This concentrated formation in the Osaka metropolis gets more than 30 elected, against 11 in the outgoing assembly. Its right-handed position interrogates on its future choices. Officially in the opposition, it could ally with the PLD.
The other opposition courses had managed to unite for this ballot by gathering for the first time its major components, the constitutional and popular Democratic parties (PDC and PDP), the Social Democratic Party and the Communist Party of the Japan (PCJ). She presented unique candidates in 75% of majority voting constituencies.
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