Thursday, 28 September 2017

Japan's Prime Minister dissolve lower house of the parliament ahead of a snap election







    Japan's Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe has dissolved the lower house of the parliament ahead of a snap election.

  The poll, announced on Monday and which comes a year early, will take place on 22 October.

  Abe is seeking a fresh mandate amid a rebound in his approval ratings and the ongoing North Korea nuclear crisis. The right-wing hawk became prime minister in 2012, and his Liberal Democrat Party, LDP, leads a ruling coalition that controls the Diet.

   His call for a snap election was seen as taking advantage of a weak opposition, and the LDP is still leading in opinion polls. He now faces a new contender in the form of the fledgling conservative Party of Hope, led by popular Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike.

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