Japanese prime minister's landslide win gives her party a lower-house supermajority and more room to enact a right-wing agenda | Fortune

"The governing party of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi secured a two-thirds supermajority in a key parliamentary election Sunday, Japanese media reported citing preliminary results, earning a landslide victory thanks to her popularity. Takaichi, in a televised interview with public television network NHK following her sweeping victory, said she is now ready to pursue policies that would make Japan strong and prosperous."

"NHK, citing results of vote counts, said Takaichi's Liberal Democratic Party, or LDP, alone secured 316 seats by early Monday, comfortably surpassing a 261-seat absolute majority in the 465-member lower house, the more powerful of Japan's two-chamber parliament. That marks a record since the party's foundation in 1955 and surpasses the previous record of 300 seats won in 1986 by late Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone."

"Despite the lack of a majority in the other chamber, the upper house, the huge jump from the preelection share in the superior lower house would allow Takaichi to make progress on a right-wing agenda that aims to boost Japan's economy and military capabilities as tensions grow with China and she tries to nurture ties with the United States. Takaichi said that she would firmly push forward her policy goals while trying to gain support from the opposition. "I will be flexible," she said."

The Liberal Democratic Party under Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi secured 316 seats in the 465-member lower house, surpassing the 261-seat majority threshold and setting a postwar record. The supermajority strengthens the government's ability to pursue policies aimed at boosting the economy and military capabilities amid growing tensions with China and efforts to strengthen ties with the United States. Takaichi called the early election after three months in office while her popularity was high and pledged energetic leadership. The LDP still lacks a majority in the upper house and Takaichi says she will seek some opposition support and remain flexible.

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