Japan’s prime minister calls for elections by dissolving parliament

Last Updated on October 11, 2024 5:55 am

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba officially dissolved the lower house of parliament on Wednesday to prepare the ground for the upcoming general election.

General elections are scheduled to be held in the country on October 26. Its campaign will start from October 15. This information emerged in the AFP report on Wednesday.

Ishiba won the presidential election of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on 27 September and was elected prime minister by the LDP-led coalition-controlled parliament on 1 October.

Ishiba broke the lower house of parliament in the shortest time to assume the post of prime minister in Japan’s post-war history. The upcoming general election will be the fifth since the revelation of the LDP’s political funding scandal in late 2023.