Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe consolidated its majority. His Liberal Democratic Party (LDP, conservative) easily won the early parliamentary elections this Sunday.
It gets only an absolute majority of seats in the assembly. But it will take still renew an alliance with the centrist party in order to have the two-thirds majority needed to pass any reforms.
The head of government made this election a kind of referendum for or against its economic policies, dubbed "Abenomics" which is to revive the economy by playing on taxation and public spending. And the results seem to validate this Sunday this policy.
Some experts point out that the outgoing Prime Minister has mostly benefited from a large division of the opposition in this election.
The election has also been marked by a low turnout.
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