Campaigning kicks off in Japan for July 10 Upper House election

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TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will be able to breathe easy if his ruling Liberal Democratic Party scores big in an Upper House election on July 10, for which campaigning began on Wedn

esday .

Media polls show both his Cabinet and the LDP maintaining stable support on the back of his response to the Ukraine crisis, as well as with Covid-19 under control. "There may not be much interest in this election," political scientist Toru Yoshida of Doshisha University in Kyoto told The Straits Times, noting that unlike in a Lower House election, there is no chance of government upheaval.

The Upper House is less powerful than the Lower House. But lawmakers can significantly delay legislation by rejecting Bills approved by the Lower House and forcing it back for a new vote, wherein the legislation can be enacted only by a two-thirds majority. He noted how Mr Kishida leads the fourth-largest faction within the LDP with 44 lawmakers. Former prime minister Shinzo Abe's faction holds 98 seats; former foreign minister Toshimitsu Motegi's, 54; and former finance minister Taro Aso's faction has 50 lawmakers.

 

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