Tokyo: Voters in Tokyo knocked the ruling party of Japan as the largest group in the city assembly, the results were shown on Monday, a warning sign for Prime Minister Shigru Ishiba’s unpopular government before the July elections.Japanese media said it was a record-less result in the major local voting for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which has led the country almost continuously since 1955.Public support for ISIBA, who took over in October, has been in rock-boy for months due to high inflation, rice prices have been doubling in the last one year.LDP took 21 Tokyo assembly seats in Sunday’s vote, already associated with the party by three candidates, but did not officially support the political funding scam.According to the Asahi Shimbun and other local media, since 2017, the party’s previous record breaks 23 seats.Tomine First No Kai, established by Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koic, extended its seats to 31 in the 127 -member assembly, which became the largest party.Shinji InoA, head of LDP’s Tokyo chapter, said on Sunday, “It was a very difficult election,The funding scandal “may affect the result”, while the policies to address inflation “did not reach the ears of voters very well” said Inauu said, promising to deal with the issue even with opposition parties.Cost of livingWithin weeks, Ishiba will face elections for the upper house of Parliament, with the report that the national ballot can be held on 20 July.Angered by rising prices and political scams, voters deprived the LDP and its junior coalition partner of the majority of Ishiba in the powerful lower house in October, marking the party’s worst general election results in 15 years.This month the pole showed a slight increase in support, however, thanks to policies for dealing with high rice prices.Many factors are located behind the recent reduction of rice at Japanese shops, including a deep warm and dry heat two years ago, damaging the crop across the country after a “mega-quake” warning last year.Experts say that at this time some traders are depositing rice in the dialect to promote their profits. In Japan, not a year ago, including unstable fresh food, goods and energy, was 3.7 percent more in May.To help in competing in homes, Ishiba has vowed 20,000 yen ($ 139) cashouts for each citizen before the upper house election.‘Serious’ results A politics at the Vasida University, Jaisa Endo described the Tokyo Assembly result for the ruling party as “serious”.“Tokyo is not a stronghold for LDP, but it is possible that its support is weakening across the country,” he said.Even if Ishiba fails to win an upper house majority, it is difficult to see who would now want to take its place, while Japan’s opposition parties are divided to mount a reliable challenge for LDP power, Endo told AFP.Opposition Democratic Party for the People (DPP) won seats in the Tokyo assembly vote for the first time, with nine safe.The pledge of the DPP campaign for the July election involves the sales tax deduction to promote domestic income.According to local media, Sunday’s voter polling rate was 47.6 percent compared to 42.4 percent four years ago.A record 295 candidates participated – the highest since 1997, including 99 women candidates, a record is also high.The number of women assembly members from 41 to 45, the results were shown.
