Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo, Japan. Picture: REUTERS/ISSEI KATO
In a tightly contested race for an upper house seat in Shizuoka prefecture, west of Tokyo, Kishida’s party failed to win over voters with the premier’s pledges to raise incomes, narrow disparities in society and provide a huge stimulus package to help the Covid-19-battered economy. While polling shows the LDP’s coalition should be able to maintain its majority in the powerful lower house, any major loss of seats in the October 31 vote may hobble Kishida’s young government and increase the chances of him joining a long list of short-serving premiers.
Before the 465-seat lower house was dissolved for the vote, the LDP held 276 seats and its junior coalition partner Komeito held 29. The main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party held 112 and is trying to build its numbers with pledges to raise the minimum wage and increase taxes on high-income earners. Liberal Democratic Party, which has ruled the country for all but about four of the last 66 years.
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