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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.
Japan’s first female prime minister counts on her popularity to help her party win Sunday’s election
Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is seeking to leverage her popularity to help her party win Sunday’s snap election as she pushes her right-wing agenda to boost her country's economy and military capabilities in the face growing tensions with China and an unpredictable Washington.
Welcome to the Daily News Brief, CFR’s flagship morning newsletter summarizing the top global news and analysis of the day. Top of the Agenda Incumbent conservative parties won sweeping victories in Japan and Thailand’s snap elections yesterday,
The governing party of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi secured a two-thirds supermajority in a key parliamentary election Sunday, Japanese media reported citing preliminary results, earning a landslide victory thanks to her popularity.
The Centrist Reform Alliance secured just 49 seats in the Feb 8 election. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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Liberal Democratic Party secures postwar Japan's first two-thirds majority
The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), led by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, secured two-thirds of the seats alone in the House of Representatives (lower house) election held on the 8th. This marks the first time in Japan’s post-war history that a single political party has surpassed the constitutional amendment threshold independently.