Japan ruling bloc projected to lose majority in Upper House election drubbing

The Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s Liberal Democratic Party and his coalition partner, Komeito, had to lose their majority in the upper room, according to the media on Sunday, a defeat that could trigger Ishiba’s resignation or the political impasse in Parliament.

Populist opposition parties, in particular the Democratic Party of the People and Sanseeito, had to increase their seats.

The elections – which came only nine months after the adoption of Ishiba – was considered a reprimand of the Prime Minister and the LDP, which was now treated Drubbings in two national elections under its direction after October in its majority in a survey of the lower chamber.