Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plans to dissolve the lower house of parliament for a snap election on Thursday, a party official said, in a move aimed at taking advantage of improved ratings and opposition disarray.
Abe, who has held power for five years, was expected to put pledges to spend on education and child care, stay tough on North Korea and revise the constitution at the forefront of his campaign.
Abe, whose ratings have risen to around 50 percent from around 30 percent in July, is gambling his ruling bloc can keep its lower house majority even if they lose the two-thirds “super majority” needed to achieve his long-held goal of revising the post-war pacifist constitution to clarify the military’s role.
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