Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae said on Monday she will dissolve the lower house of the Japanese Parliament on Friday, setting the stage for snap elections on February 8. The next parliamentary election was not scheduled until October 2028.
Takaichi said she made the “very difficult” decision to pull the trigger on early elections because she wants the Japanese people to “decide directly whether they can entrust the management of the country to me.”
“I believe that the only option is for the people, as sovereign citizens, to decide whether or not Sanae Takaichi should be prime minister,” she said at a press conference in Tokyo on Monday.
Takaichi became Japan’s first female prime minister in October, with the help of a reforged
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