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Abe’s Death Throws Japanese Polls Into Chaos

Sympathy vote may change upper house electoral equation

Jul 10, 2022
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By: Rupakjyoti Borah

The biggest change agent in today’s upper house elections to the Japanese Parliament is likely to be the assassination on July 8 of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, which has thrown them into chaos as the nation goes into mourning for one of its most influential political figures.

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