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Japan’s LDP to lose seats, keep comfortable majority with Komeito: poll

Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party may lose seats in the House of Representatives in Sunday’s general election but it will retain a comfortable majority together with its coalition partner Komeito, a Kyodo News survey showed Wednesday.

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who took office less than a month ago, is expected to claim a mandate for his COVID-19 and economic policies with such a result. There will be little, if any, change to the Cabinet line-up if voters decide to keep the current government, he said in a TV appearance on Tuesday.

The LDP could fail to retain all of the 276 seats it held in the 465-seat lower chamber of parliament prior to the election, while the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan is struggling to gain momentum toward adding to its 110 seats, according to the survey.

But the LDP and Komeito together could win more than 261 seats, enough to effectively control all standing committees in the lower house and push their legislative agenda forward.

Kyodo News polled about 119,000 eligible voters by phone from Saturday to Tuesday. Around 40 percent said they had not yet decided how to vote in the single-member district portion of the election, indicating the result could still swing in either direction.

 

Source: Azerbaijan State News Agency