Japan's ruling party LDP wins majority in polls held after Shinzo Abe's asssassination
World | July 11, 2022 14:27 ISTShinzo Abe Assassination: Abe was gunned down in Nara city in western Japan on Friday, while he was delivering a campaign speech.
Shinzo Abe Assassination: Abe was gunned down in Nara city in western Japan on Friday, while he was delivering a campaign speech.
Japan election: Preliminary vote counts showed the governing Liberal Democratic Party on track to secure a coalition total of at least 143 seats in the 248-member upper house, the less powerful of the two chambers.
Abe was shot in Nara on Friday and airlifted to a hospital but died of blood loss. Police arrested a former member of Japan’s navy at the scene.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida had dissolved the lower house only 10 days after taking office on October 4.
Kishida replaces outgoing party leader Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, who is stepping down after serving only one year since taking office last September.
Japan ranked worst among the Group of Seven advanced nations — 120th in a 156-nation gender gap ranking survey of the World Economic Forum in 2021.
PM Shinzo Abe's ruling coalition returned to power in elections yesterday for Japan's more powerful Lower House.
Media tallies showed the Liberal Democratic Party-Komeito bloc won 312 seats in the 465-member Lower House.
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