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The Japanese leader's election gambit, fueled by the power of her personality and some unlikely help from young voters consumed by “Sanamania,” appears to have paid off.

Japan’s conservative prime minister Sanae Takaichi has won a landslide victory after she gambled on a high-stakes snap election.

Takaichi, who took office in October after being elected leader of the governing Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), surpassed the 310 seats needed for a supermajority in the 465-seat lower house, Japanese public broadcaster NHK reported from the official election count on Sunday evening. The supermajority allows her ruling coalition to override the upper house, where it lacks a majority.

An NHK exit poll as voting ended earlier on Sunday projected the LDP would win between 274 and 326 seats. The party and its coalition partner Ishin were projected to win a combined 302-366 seats, as voters turned out amid freezing temperatures in a rare winter election.

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[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 54 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Enjoy your flavor of authoritarian rule with an ultra nationalist regime Japan. Hope voting for a personality was worth it. Pray you'll have elections come next time cause they're going to be "fraudulent" with a need to be "reformed"

I'm also expecting the Japanese animation studios are going to be more muzzled with their content and LGBTQ if any will be shown now

I may be overreacting, but as an American, everything I said has happened here

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 14 points 1 month ago
[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Pray you'll have elections come next time cause they're going to be "fraudulent" with a need to be "reformed"

She does want to reduce the number of reps in one of the houses, but that's all I'm immediately aware of. Another party wanted to restrict naturalized citizens more, but I don't think that made its way to the LDP platform.

The "next time" for elections in Japan is also a little less set since the PM can dissolve the lower house whenever triggering an election a couple weeks later. There are also other elections on other schedules. I don't see it going that far at this time, personally.

[–] Gathorall@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, with a supermajority the next election would most likely be when it legally has to be.

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah this move was essentially to reset the counter to a full 4 years in the lower house. The ldp loves scandles, though, so she might step on a rake and we see some sort of pm election and another general