Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is believed to be considering dissolving the Lower House for a snap election as early as next month, as the Japanese leader looks to stabilize the ruling bloc’s fragile majority in the body.
Takaichi appears to have “shifted to a new stage” in her thinking with regard to calling a snap poll, the co-leader of the Japan Innovation Party, Takaichi’s Liberal Democratic Party coalition partner said Sunday.
JIP co-leader Hirofumi Yoshimura, who also serves as governor of Osaka Prefecture, said in an interview with NHK that he had spoken with Takaichi about the issue on Thursday, a day before the Yomiuri Shimbun daily reported that Takaichi was considering the move.