The result of the election yesterday was a land-slide victory for the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ). The Prime Minister, Taro Aso, has announced his resignation as the the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) with this result.
Number of seats before and after the election: DPJ 115 --> 308, LDP 300 --> 119, . Komei Party (LDP ally) 31 --> 21.
Today, a typhoon (real weather system) may hit Tokyo.
2 comments:
I read about this in this morning's Wall Street Journal. Really quite amazing! Such a total reversal of fortunes for the LDP.
Here in North America we have seen two similar--but quite different in fundamental ways--elections like this. Here, it was more a case of people getting sick of those who had run things for so long. The WSJ framed it as partly a case of people being tired of the party in power but mostly disenchantment for how they handled the economic downturn.
Thank you for your comment. What you wrote at the end is exactly what had happened here. The public has spoken, but now the new ruling party faces very difficult issues.
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