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The Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, has dissolved the House of Representatives of Parliament (Lower House) this Friday to celebrate a early elections on February 8, in which he hopes to translate his popularity into seats after coming to power three months ago.
“According to Article 7 of the Constitution, the House is dissolved,” said the president of the Japanese chamber, Fukushiro Nukaga, as soon as the session started at 1:00 p.m. local time (4:00 GMT). The room emptied a few minutes after the statement.
Takaichi announced last Monday his decision to call early general elections on February 8, a decision he described as “very difficult.”
The president enjoys a high approval ratingbut your Government has a narrow one-seat majority in the Lower House (the most important of the two that make up Parliament), and is in the minority in the Upper House.
The dissolution starts a very brief electoral campaign, with just 16 days before the early elections on February 8.
Takaichi, when announcing last Monday his intention to call early elections, stated that his goal is to achieve a majority among the Liberal Democratic Party (PLD) that he leads, and his new coalition partner, the Japan Innovation Party (They were).
With 465 seats up for grabs in the Lower House, a simple majority means the LDP and Ishin should win 233 parliamentarians jointly.
“We are going to strive to find a majority in the coalition, and beyond (towards) political stability,” the secretary general of the PLD told the parliamentary television network, Shunichi Suzukiafter dissolution.
Suzuki also insisted that the elections, presented by Takaichi herself as a referendum on his leadership, They are necessary to strengthen the increase in public spending to boost the stagnant Japanese economy proposed by your Government.
The prime minister came to power after winning a primary for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) last October, motivated by the resignation of her predecessor, Shigeru Ishiba, after several electoral failures.
The conservative will have to face the Centrist Reformist Alliance, a new formation formed by the union of the Constitutional Democratic Party (PDC), the main opposition force, and the Buddhist Komeito, a coalition partner of the LDP for more than 20 years and which broke with the ruling party after the election of Takaichi as leader.