Japan: polling stations open for parliamentary elections

(ANSA) – TOKYO, OCTOBER 31 – The seats for the parliamentary elections for the renewal of the lower house of Parliament have opened in Japan, for which 106 million Japanese citizens are called to the polls.

The consultation takes place after Fumio Kishida, of the Liberal Democratic Party, took over the government on 4 October, succeeding Shinzo Abe, the longest-serving prime minister in the history of the Land of the Rising Sun.

The very brief electoral campaign, which began only on October 19, saw the Liberal Democratic Party and the opposition, led by the Constitutional Democratic Party, face each other in particular regarding the response given to the pandemic, the economic crisis it caused and the responses to be given. to encourage recovery. (HANDLE).

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