Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling bloc suffered two rare losses i...
TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ruling bloc suffered two rare losses in by-elections on Sunday in an apparent warning from voters not to get complacent ahead of a national election for parliament’s upper house later this year.
“Each individual Liberal Democratic Party member must take the results to heart and buckle down,” Abe told reporters on Monday morning. Support for Abe’s cabinet was at 47 percent in a survey by public broadcaster NHK released this month, up five points from the previous month. Speculation is simmering that Abe will call a snap lower house election in tandem with the upper house poll, possibly after announcing the postponement of a sales tax hike to 10 percent from eight percent scheduled for October.
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