AdvertisementsMPs voted by a huge majority to re-install Abe, after his conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) swept to a two-thirds “super majority” on October 22. In the 465-seat lower house, Abe won 312 votes from the conservative ruling bloc. In the 242-seat upper house, Abe won a majority vote of 151 votes, returning him to the top Japanese political post. “Our chamber nominates Mr. Shinzo Abe as the prime minister,” lower house speaker Tadamori Oshima declared after the televised vote. They were both dwarfed by Abe’s conservative coalition, which secured 313 lower house seats and obtained the “super majority” required to change the constitution.

Source: Manila Times November 01, 2017 14:37 UTC