Tokyo: The Japanese voter spaced a ballot in the national election of the week, the first major test for Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to determine whether he had a considerable mandate to overcome the economy that was beaten by Coronavirus, a rapid population and reduced from China and North Korea.
To be contested is 465 seats at home down, the stronger than the Japanese diet, or parliament.
The Liberal Democratic Party that regulates Kishida is expected to lose several seats from the pre-election level, but maintain a comfortable majority along with the Junior Coalition partner Komeito.
Kishida, 64, was elected by the Prime Minister on October 4 after winning a leadership race in the ruling party, when his conservative leaders saw it as a substitute for the safe status for Yoshihide Suga and its influential predecessor Shinzo Abe.
The direct assignment of Kishida is to support support for a party that weakened by the Suga approach felt by the steps of pandemic and insistence to hold the Tokyo Summer Olympics even though there are widespread opposition.
Kishida dissolved house down only 10 days after serving, called on this election and stated that he wanted a mandate from voters to his new government before starting to work.
The short and 17-day campaign period participated in the LDP leadership competition, which has dominated media coverage, unfairly giving the Kishida Party as an advantage over the opposition, several experts said.
Kishida’s long-term handle on strength will depend on how well he is in the election.
Kishida repeatedly emphasized his determination to listen to people and overcome the criticism that the nine-year-old ABE-Sima leadership caused corruption, taming bureaucrats and forcing opposite opinions.
This campaign is mostly centered on the steps of the Covid-19 response and revitalizes the economy.
While the Kishida Party stressed the importance of having a stronger military amid fears of China’s influence and the threat of North Korea’s nuclear and nuclear and nuclear threats, the opposition party focused on the problem of diversity and encouraging gender equality.
Opposition leaders complain that the LDP government has recently expanded the gap between rich and poor, does not support the economy during the initiative of equality and pandemic gender diversity and traffic jams.
Kishida has set a simple goal for LDP and its coalition partner Komeito.
He wants to jointly maintain the majority of them, which will be 233 seats at home down 465 members.
It was a low bar, considering LDP only had 276 seats before the election.
A big decline, even if the party makes the majority, it will be a bad start for the old government of Kishida.
The media poll shows that LDP is likely to lose the seat, partly because the five opposition parties form a unite front to unite candidates in many small selection constituencies and are expected to get a position there.
If, because there are many predictions, the powerful coalition wins around 261 seats, they can control all parliamentary committees and easily encourage through a divisive law.
Most of the results are expected on Monday morning.
Opposition has long struggled to win enough votes to form a government after a brief government of the middle-left democratic party that has now died in Japan in 2009-2012.
In the economy, Kishida has emphasized growth by increasing income, while opposition groups focus more on wealth redistribution and call for cash payments to low-income households pandemic.
LDP opposes the law that guarantees equality for sexual minorities and allows a separate family name for married couples.
Of the 1,051 candidates, only 17% were women, despite the 2018 law that promoted gender equality in elections, which was not noisy because there was no penalty.
Women accounted for around 10 percent of parliament, the situation of gender rights experts calling “democracy without women”.