US EditionCan Japan’s Sanae Takaichi Beat the Heat with a Snap Election?
Takaichi seeks to regain a lower house majority amid rising living costs and a funding scandal, with polls showing 62% voter support, to advance economic and defense policies.
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AlKhaleej TodayTakaichi’s early election gamble: What’s driving Japan’s snap poll
TOKYO, Jan 16 — Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi plans to dissolve parliament’s lower house next week, triggering a national election to decide all 465 seats in her first major election test since taking office in October.She will announce details of the election on Monday, ruling Liberal Democratic Party Secretary-General Shunichi Suzuki said.Why call an election now?Japan’s first female premier inherited a battered government, with the LD…
The initiative took place after the prime minister closed five days of silence when he told the heads of the government coalition that he would resolve the Lower House “precedently” at the opening of the next session
Japan's Takaichi plans to dissolve lower house to set up an early snap election
TOKYO — Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi plans to dissolve the lower house of Parliament soon to pave the way for a snap election to seek the public's mandate for her policies, a top party official said Wednesday.
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