Despite the electoral defeat and a loss of majority
The Japanese Premier Shigeru Ishiba intends to remain at the helm of the executive despite the “severe verdict” of citizens in the elections for the renewal of the high chamber, who saw the conservative party losing the majority, underlining the need to avoid a political stall in a moment of “national crisis”. On the sidelines of a press conference, Ishiba, who is also the President of the Liberal-Democrats (LDP), the main party of the government coalition together with the Centrist force of Buddhist inspiration Komeito, recognized that he is in a “thorny” situation, while excluding that he widens the coalition to other opposition forces. The premier party has not achieved the pre-election goal of conquering at least 50 of the 125 seats in the run to reach the majority threshold in the high chamber. The LDP and Komeito now have 122 seats, decreasing compared to the 141 preceding the elections. In this way, the coalition finds itself not having control of the majority in both chambers of Parliament, a situation that had never occurred by the foundation of the conservative party, in 1955
