Japan’s PM accepts ‘harsh result’ of election as exit polls predict loss of upper house | Japan
Japan’s shaking power coalition is likely to lose control of the upper house, exit surveys after the Sunday elections, potentially heralded political turmoil with US stalls as the last date of a tariff.
Although the ballot does not directly determine whether the minority government of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has fallen, it brings together the pressure on the breastfeeding leader, who lost control of the stronger lower house in October.
Ishiba’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and coalition partner Komomeito needs 50 seats to secure the 248 -person upper room. Public publisher NHK is expected to hold 32 to 51 seats according to the exit survey. He estimates that the ruling coalition of other publishers will return to 41 to 43 chairs. If the coalition falls below 46 chairs, it will mark its worst consequence since it was founded in 1999.
This is one of the worst shows in the lower home elections of October as a vote that leaves Ishiba’s administration vulnerable to insecure movements and causes calls from his party for a change of leadership. Speaking to NHK two hours after the surveys closed, Ishiba said that he accepted “seriously” “hard result”.
He asked if he did not intend to remain as the prime minister and party leader, he said, “This is true.”
Tv We make extremely critical tariff negotiations with the United States… We should never ruin these negotiations with the United States.
Japan, the fourth largest economy in the world, is facing an August 1st deadline to make a trade agreement with the US or to meet tariffs that punish tariffs in the largest export market.
The NHK’s exit survey, the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party is expected to win from 22 to 30 seats from 22 to 30 seats.
The extreme right Sanseito Party, born on YouTube a few years ago, was a surprise package with its “Japanese first” campaign and warnings of foreigners about the “silent invasion”. It is expected to win 10 to 15 chairs in the room from someone previously organized, but it holds only three seats in the lower house.
Opposition parties defending tax cuts and prosperity expenditures hit a chord with voters, exit surveys, increasing consumer prices – a jump in the cost of rice – especially the government’s reaction showed disappointment.
“LDP was playing great defense in this election, on the wrong side of a key voter problem, Dav said David Boling, Director of the consulting firm Eurasia Group.
“Surveys show that most households want a deduction in consumption tax to address inflation, and that LDP opposes. Opposition took over the parties and beat this message home.”
Since investors are concerned about Japan’s ability to re -finance the world’s largest debt, a very tense government calls for financial restriction with an eye in the bond market.
Firstly, Covid Pandemic spread during the conspiracy theories and the global elites’ cabinet, once dragged the fringe political discourse to the mainstream, and gained wider support among the disappointed voters.
It is seen whether the party can follow the path of other right -wing parties such as AfD and reform, Germany.
Yu Nagai, a 25 -year -old student who voted for Sanseito on Sunday, said, orum I’m going to a graduate school, but I don’t have Japanese around me. They’re all strangers. “
After making a ballot to a voting station in the Shinjuku ward of Tokyo, Nagai said, “When I look at how compensation and money is spent on foreigners, I think the Japanese people are a little disrespectful.”
In Japan, the oldest population in the world, foreign -born residents broke about 3.8 million records last year.
This is still a fraction of only 3% of the total than the US and Europe, but it comes in the midst of a tourism explosion that makes foreigners more visible throughout the country.
