Fumio Kishida secured a bigger-than-expected victory for the Liberal Democrats in Japan’s general election despite a nationwide weariness against the ruling party’s near-decade-long grip on power.
The LDP was on Sunday evening set to retain majority control of the Diet’s lower house, according to state broadcaster NHK, sparing the new prime minister a humiliation that would have jeopardised his leadership.
But the races for many of the party’s leading figures were extremely close, a measure of the electorate’s frustration with the long LDP rule. Akira Amari, LDP party secretary-general and an architect of Japan’s new “economic security” strategy, lost his constituency seat and has told Kishida he would step down, according to NHK.
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