Japan’s Takaichi wins big in snap election
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Takaichi led the ruling Liberal Democratic Party to a supermajority in the Lower House, securing 316 seats in Japan's largest election win since World War Two.
The import of the victory notwithstanding, Takaichi’s government and Japan face tough policy choices. The charts below summarise this
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s big election win paves the way for her ruling party to dominate the crucial lower house of parliament.
Japan’s prime minister won a huge election victory, sending geopolitical tremors rippling across Asia, and the world.
Well, she pulled it off. Japan’s prime minister Sanae Takaichi took the bold gamble of calling a general election
It was a risky gamble to call a snap election. But now Japan’s Sanae Takaichi is basking in the strongest majority for a Japanese government since World War II.
Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s first female prime minister, harnessed her personal popularity and a shift to the right among voters to achieve a record election win.
The comprehensive electoral victory of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi over the weekend secured the Liberal Democratic Party a two-thirds majority in the Japanese Diet, a broad and inarguable mandate for her proposed nationalist revival.