Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s future is in doubt after disastrous loss in upper-house election

The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which has almost ruled almost since 1955, and his partner Cometo was forced to win 50 seats in Sunday, but they got only about 41 seats, according to local media expectations.

The angry voters from inflation turned to other parties, especially the Japanese “Japanese”, which made strong gains with its “anti -skin” engine that reminds us of the agenda of US President Donald Trump.

This disaster comes just months after the Ishiba alliance lost its majority in the lower home, as it suffered from the worst result of LDP for 15 years.

Ishiba, 68, was a “obsessive” self-policy that is seen as a safe husband when he won the LDP leadership in September-in his fifth-on-day attempt on Sunday about his future.

“It is a difficult situation, and we have to take it very seriously,” Ishiba told the broadcaster NHK. When asked about his future, he only said that “he could not speak lightly.”

“We cannot do anything until we see the final results, but we want to be completely aware of our responsibility,” Ishia added.

If he goes, it is unclear who may ascend as the eleventh Prime Minister of LDP since 2000 now after the government needs to support the opposition in both rooms.

“Ishiba may be replaced by someone else, but it is not clear who will be the back,” Hydhahiro Yamamoto, Professor of Politics and Sociology at the University of Tsukuba, told AFP.

Rice price

After years of stagnation or hanging prices, consumers were pressured in the fourth largest economy in the world by inflation since Russia invaded 2022 to Ukraine.

In particular, the price of rice has doubled, as it pressed many families’ budgets despite government flyers.

Hesayo Kojima – one of the elderly hordes in the fall of the falling Japan and the Khoukha – outside the voting station on Sunday that its pension “is cut off short and shorter.”

“We have pushed a lot to support the pension system. This is the most urgent issue for me,” said 65 -year -old to Agence France -Presse in Tokyo.

Lack of help is the constant resentment of the LDP financing scandal, and US tariffs by 25 percent due to the sting from August 1 if there is no trade deal with the United States.

Japanese imports are already subject to a 10 percent tariff, while the auto industry, which represents eight percent of jobs, is reeling from a 25 percent tax.

The weak export data last week, which showed a decrease in the automatic delivery of the United States, has fears that Japan could be active in the technical recession.

Although Ishiba secured an early meeting with Trump in February, and his commercial envoy sent to Washington seven times, there was no agreement.

“Japanese first”

The last time that LDP and Komeito failed to win a majority in the Senate was in 2010, after it had already decreased without the threshold in 2007.

This was followed by a rare change in the government in 2009, when the Democratic Democratic Party ruled that now ended for three rock years.

Today, the opposition is fragmented, and the opportunities are small that the parties can form an alternative government.

Sanseito Popular Party wants “more rules and borders” to migrate, opposes “globalization” and “radical” and “radical” policies between the sexes, and wants to rethink carbon and vaccine removal.

Last week, he had to deny any links to Moscow – which supported popular parties elsewhere – after an interview with a candidate by Russian government media.

“They put in the words of what I was thinking about, but I could not put words for many years,” a voter told AFP at the Sansito march.