Japan's long-running governing party loses majority, raising uncertainty over next government
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Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's Liberal Democratic Party has ruled for almost all of Japan's postwar period. But it lost its parliamentary majority at Sunday's national election. Could smaller parties be key for Japan's future government?

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The party promised to clean up its finances ahead of the election but allowed most of more than 40 members who failed to record political donations to stand for the party.

  • Cyrus Draegur@lemm.eeEnglish
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    28 days ago

    CDP is a move in that direction relative to the faltering LDP. Japan seems less caught in the 2-party trap than some electoral systems, and generally speaking an anti-conservative coalition would move the needle where it desperately needs to go.