Japan’s ruling party wins big in election after ex-prime minister Shinzo Abe's killing
while giving a speech in the city of Nara in western Japan, while campaigning for the LDP ahead of Sunday’s legislative elections. Despite his resignation due to ill health in 2020, he was still perhaps the most influential politician in the country. He led the largest faction in the LDP and played an important role in setting the party’s agenda and its leadership.
Still, the election—typically seen as a referendum on the incumbent government—may help Kishida consolidate his rule. Christopher Johnstone, the Japan chair at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank, says that Kishida’s “immediate challenge will be addressing the economy, and inflation in particular, which polls indicated was the top issue for voters.
The vote might also pave the way for Kishida to revise the country’s pacifist constitution—a lifelong goal for Abe. The U.S.-drafted-constitution, which renounces war, was imposed on Japan after World War II.The outcome of Sunday’s vote means political forces supportive of constitutional revision retain a two-thirds majority of the upper chamber.
said on Sunday that he would push forward with plans to amend the constitution. The ruling coalition “will deepen parliamentary debate over the constitution further so a concrete amendment proposal can be compiled,” he said.
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