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.
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.
But Takaichi sees constitutional revision as a matter of national destiny, and her huge parliamentary majority as a unique opportunity to update a document suited to Japan’s future. “The constitution tells the story of the nation’s ideal form,” she said on Monday.
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.
Well, she pulled it off. Japan’s prime minister Sanae Takaichi took the bold gamble of calling a general election