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Japan: Shinzo Abe's party wins big in upper chamber election
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Japan: Shinzo Abe's party wins big in upper chamber election

| @indiablooms | 11 Jul 2022, 04:21 pm

Tokyo/UNI: Japan's ruling party has swept the House of Councillors election held on Sunday.

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) grabbed 63 seats, or more than half of the 125 seats up for grabs, buoyed by strong voter support in a show of public confidence in his nine-month-old administration despite the country struggling with rising prices and security threats posed by Russia's war in Ukraine, according to Kyodo News.

The LDP and its coalition partner Komeito had secured a total of 76 seats, thus, retaining a majority in the 248-member upper chamber of parliament.

The pro-constitutional amendment camp, comprising the LDP-Komeito coalition, two opposition parties and independents, secured 179 seats in the upper chamber, Kyodo News reported.

The PM is likely to reshuffle his Cabinpaet and ruling party executives by September, according to LDP sources.

The election was held in the wake of the assassination of Ex-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a lower house member and a key LDP figure.

He was shot on July 8 in Nara while giving a speech in support of LDP.

His death has unified the major parties in their resolve to not yield to political violence.

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