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Political Turmoil Rocks Japan as Ruling Parties Lose Majority

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  • The ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and Komeito lost their majority in Japan’s October 27 Lower House election, fomenting uncertainty over the future of the Ishiba Cabinet amid a dramatic loss of political leverage for the LDP.
  • Voters punished the ruling parties for their inadequate response to political slush-fund scandals – a problem made worse by pre-election revelations that the LDP secretly funneled cash to candidates who were supposed to be cut off as punishment for their transgressions.
  • With the opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDPJ) also now theoretically within reach of forming a government, the LDP and CDPJ are in a dogfight to convince two parties with casting votes — the Democratic Party for the People (DPFP) and Japan Innovation Party (Ishin) — to support their candidate for prime minister in a Diet vote that must be held by November 26.
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