(28 Oct 2024)
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Tokyo – 28 October 2024
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1. Various of newspapers reporting Japan’s incumbent coalition lost a majority in the 465-seat lower house in Sunday’s parliamentary election, headlines reading (Japanese): "LDP with financial scandals faces devastating defeat "
2. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Hitoshi Hirano, 63-year-old business owner:
"It thought that LDP (Liberal Democratic Party) will lose seats. Though I didn’t expect them to lose that many. I guess they were knocked out by that transfer of 20 million yen."
3. Pan of Monday’s newspapers, headlines reading (Japanese): "Ruling coalition loses majority"
4. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Hitoshi Hirano, 63-year-old business owner:
"There were many electoral districts where the LDP lost by a narrow margin, so if they had retained those districts, LDP might not have lost this badly."
5. University student, Kain Hikita, talking to media
6. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Kain Hikita, 21-year-old university student:
"Even if you don’t participate in politics by voting, a country where you could live a peaceful life is not a bad thing. I also think you have something you want to express, you should go and vote."
7. Banner, reading (Japanese): "Voting day on 27 October, the 50th House of Representatives election"
8. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Kikuko Tsujii, from Yokohama in her 80s:
"I wish more young people would be more interested in elections. I am personally pleased that the ruling coalition lost in the final results."
9. Low angle shot of people walking
STORYLINE:
Japan’s ruling coalition lost a majority in the 465-seat lower house in a key parliamentary election on Sunday.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s Liberal Democratic Party’s loss was not a surprise for some voters in Tokyo.
Many believed it was the voters’ outrage over the governing party’s extensive financial scandals that led to the results.
The LDP remains the top party in Japan’s parliament, and a change of government is not expected.
But the results create political uncertainty.
Falling short of a majority makes it difficult for Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba to get his party’s policies through parliament, and he may need to find a third coalition partner.
The LDP’s coalition retains a majority in the less powerful upper house.
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