https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/b730701ca2d0d142bd0425b4b3faa2daf7831e55
On the 9th, Prime Minister Takaichi (President of the Liberal Democratic Party) began considering dissolving the House of Representatives at the beginning of the regular Diet session scheduled to convene on the 23rd. The House of Representatives election is likely to be held in early to mid-February. The Prime Minister appears to have decided that, with the ruling party remaining in the minority in the House of Councillors, it is necessary to gain momentum to realize policies.
Questioning "responsible and proactive fiscal policy"
A government official revealed this. Proposals for the House of Representatives election schedule, "Announcement on January 27th – Voting on February 8th" and "Announcement on February 3rd – Voting on the 15th," are being floated.
The Prime Minister has advocated a "strong economy" and "responsible and proactive fiscal policy," and wants to gain the public's trust for his economic policies.
The fiscal 2025 supplementary budget, which backs up the comprehensive economic measures passed at last year's extraordinary Diet session, has total general account expenditures exceeding 18 trillion yen, the largest since the COVID-19 pandemic. The prime minister has set out a growth strategy to fundamentally strengthen the supply structure of domestic industry through strategic fiscal spending. "Crisis management investment" in areas directly linked to national strength is also expected to be a key focus of the budget.
Constitutional reform is also expected to be a key issue in the election campaign. The LDP and the Japan Innovation Party clearly stated in their coalition government agreement that they will prepare a constitutional amendment to create an emergency clause and aim to submit it to the Diet during fiscal 2014.
The reason why the prime minister is considering dissolving the House of Representatives in January is likely due to the fact that the cabinet's approval rating has remained high. According to a nationwide opinion poll conducted by the Yomiuri Shimbun, approval was 71% when the cabinet was first established in October last year, and remained at 70% until December of the same year (73%).
The LDP group holds 199 seats in the House of Representatives, and together with the Japan Innovation Party, it has a total of 233 seats. Although it has narrowly regained a majority (233), the ruling party remains in a minority position in the House of Councillors, resulting in a "twisted Diet." The LDP has secured cooperation from the Democratic Party for the People to quickly pass the fiscal 2014 budget bill. However, the LDP's support base, Rengo, is opposed to the party joining the coalition early, and the prime minister has expressed concern about unstable Diet management.
China has been increasing its economic pressure on Japan since his Diet response regarding a Taiwan emergency. The prime minister appears to have been hoping to turn the tide in the worsening Japan-China relationship by strengthening his administration's base.
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I am eager to see and hoping for a new election.
Let’s see if those high approval ratings were real or manipulated.
Let’s see what Japanese voters think.
She looks like a plastic surgeryed demon woman
Shes out by the end of the year in telling ya
TACO
What’s “dissolving” mean here? Like it’s no more, they’re not going to meet or what?
Smart move. Her approval is really higher than anyone expected, anti-foreigner sentiment is the highest since the Meiji era, she should capitalize on it.
My god LDP is going to gain seats and she’s going to make everything a lot worse while blaming foreigners isn’t she?
Ishiba dissolved it last year. There are way too many elections and it will cost tax payers money of around $500 million. A serious waste of money, but this is the kind of Machiavellian politics that you can expect from the LDP.
Gotta do it while popularity is still high.
Japan has only one ruling party. That administers the country on behalf of the military occupation force – USA.
I don‘t like her, but dissolving it at this point will mean more votes for Sanseito.
台湾問題に責任取って辞任するんだろ？
>fiscal 2014
Wrong 26年度 (machine went with Heisei)
Ah for fuck sakes.
Another round of “fuck the foreigners” for weeks on end.
Dissolving as in getting rid of it? Making it smaller? Lessing it’s powers? All of the above?
Shes looking for a super majority to somehow rubber stamp with the special hanko, even faster than normal( while currently it moves fast but it can move faster).
The market predicts JP government will continue this(weaker Yen) sentiment. I should have sold all JGB to get USD, but it’s too late.
Why stop at dissolving? Why not abolish it altogether?
She really should just do Japan and the rest of the world a favor and willingly step down. I feel like she’s undoing all the reasonable and logical ways that Japan has worked hard to build themselves up in for a long time turning them upside down.
Mam, I respect your enthusiasm and hard work but you aren’t doing Japan any favors. While your election is historic it is not beneficial but rather destructive. Would you kindly step down from position of pm would you kindly.
Hope she gets voted out quickly