TOKYO, Oct. 10 (Xinhua) -- The announcement of the election of Japan's 48th House of Representatives was released on 10 October, and candidates began to submit applications on the morning of the same day, marking the official opening of the 12-day election campaign for the Japanese House of Representatives.
The current House of Representatives election will be voted on the 22nd and will be voted on the same day. According to current statistics, there will be 1200 candidates vying for 465 seats. The Liberal Democratic Party and the Komeito Party, the Party of Hope and the Japan Restoration Association, as well as the Cadet Democratic Party, the Japanese Communist Party and the Social Democratic Party, will compete fiercely in the election campaign.
Analysts believe that the election of the Japanese House of Representatives is confusing and the prospects are unpredictable.
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party had 288 seats in the House of Representatives when it dissolved it, and there were voices within the party that the prime minister should be held accountable if the LDP had fewer seats alone in the election by 50. In response, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe responded on the 8th that as long as the Liberal Democratic Party and the Komeito Party jointly have more than half of the seats (233 seats), he will continue to govern.
In addition, the Democratic Progressive Party ( DPP ), which was originally the largest opposition party , has now fallen apart , with some merging into the "Party of Hope" founded by Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, part of the new Cadet Party, and some of which have become non-partisans. Koike was tight-lipped about the prime minister's choice, and the Party of Hope, in the name of overthrowing the Abe government, did not deny the possibility of forming a coalition with the Liberal Democratic Party after the election.
In Japan, the current two-vote election system is based on a small constituency system and a proportional representation system. Small constituencies are directly voted for by voters, with the largest number of votes elected, while proportional representation constituencies are polled by voters and, depending on the number of votes, seats are allocated to political parties in proportion. The number of seats in this election decreased by 10 compared with the previous election, a total of 465 seats, the lowest in Japan after the war, of which 289 were small constituencies and 176 were proportional to the constituencies.
According to the latest poll released by the Japan Broadcasting Association Television, Abe's cabinet has a 37% approval rating and a 44% approval rating. In addition, 67 percent of the people surveyed disagreed with Abe's decision to dissolve the diet and hold an early election.
The "three poles" pattern is unpredictable!