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Japan’s PM Shigeru Ishiba appeared at the party headquarters during the counting of votes on Sunday. Red rose papers are in front of the names of the candidates who won on the board. It is considered a sign of victory.
In Japan, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its allies have lost their majority in the upper house of the country. However, he has made it clear that he will not resign from the post of Prime Minister.
The Japanese Parliament has a total of 248 seats in the upper house. Ishiba already had 75 seats. To maintain a majority, she needed at least 50 new seats in this election, but she got only 47 seats. Of these, LDP alone has got 39 seats. The result of one seat is yet to come.
This defeat is the second major political failure for PM Ishiba. Earlier, after losing the election of the lower House in October, this alliance has now gone into a minority in both the houses. LDP was founded in 1955, and this is the first time it has lost a majority in both houses.
Officers at a counting center on Sunday for the election of the upper house in Tokyo counting votes.
Public angry over America’s tariff
This election was held when inflation is increasing in Japan and people are concerned about the tariffs that can be imposed by the US. According to the BBC, there was resentment against the ruling alliance over these issues.
Despite the defeat in the election, Prime Minister Ishiba clearly said that he will not leave the post. He said that he will continue to work for the country and will try to deal with issues like America’s tariffs.
However, when the last three Prime Ministers lost a majority in the upper house, they resigned within two months. In such a situation, pressure on Ishiba may also increase.
If they move, the new leadership race in LDP can begin. It includes many big names such as Sane Takaichi, Takayuki Kobayashi and Shinjiro Koizumi.
The vote of right -wing voters was divided in Japan
Professor Jeffrey Hall, a university in Japan, told the BBC that increasing support to right -wing parties is now cutting the traditional vote bank of LDP. According to him, supporters of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe do not consider the current Prime Minister Ishiba to be sufficiently conservative. He feels that Ishiba is not as strict on issues like China and history as Shinzo Abe.
Many of the votes that LDP used to get earlier are now getting a small but fast emerging party Sansseto. Till the election, Sainseto had only 1 seat. It has now increased to 14.
Sanseto is openly talking about the principles of anti -foreign, nationalist and conspiracy. Nobody used to say his words in the Japanese Parliament earlier.
The Sanseto Party was recognized by a video based on anti-vaccine and global conspiracies on YouTube during the Kovid-19 epidemic. Now this party is gaining support from radical and anti-immigration people through slogans like ‘Japan First’.
Sainseto Party leader Sohei Kamia expressed happiness at the party headquarters on Sunday after the result.
The election results also affected the markets. Although Japan’s stock exchange was closed on Monday, the price of Japanese yen increased in the rest of the world’s markets, as investors already expected this defeat.
