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November 01, 2021Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida declared victory today after the ruling coalition maintained an above-expected parliamentary majority in yesterday's parliamentary elections.
"It was a very difficult ballot," Kishida said.
But voters have shown they want a "stable government" of the outgoing majority to shape the country's future, he added.
The ruling party in Japan managed to retain its large parliamentary majority in Sunday's elections. The Prime Minister's Liberal Democratic Party (PLD) won 261 seats, according to the latest poll reported by public channel NHK. Although the PLD gets fewer seats than in the last election, it is a "stable majority" (above 233) in the Lower House, which has a total of 465 seats.
The ruling party thus secured a fourth consecutive term together with its coalition partner, the Buddhist party Komeito, which went from 29 seats in 2017 to 32 yesterday, bringing the total number of seats between the two formations to 293. While Prime Minister Kishida will retain control of the Lower House for this new term, the PLD has lost 15 seats since 2017 and the party's training secretary general and key figure, Akira Amari, has lost in your district. The blockade of the opposition as a whole has advanced, although the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (PCDJ) has seen its seats decrease to 96, compared to the previous 109. The formation however remains the main opposition force in the country.
The Communist Party loses consensus and is reduced to 10 seats, two fewer than in the previous round.
The best performance among the opposition was recorded by the Innovation Party of Japan, which quadrupled parliamentary representation, from 11 to 41 seats.