Official campaigning began on Thursday for the July 31 gubernatorial election, pitting two former ministers with links to the metropolitan assembly’s ruling party against a veteran journalist backed by a united opposition front.
South Korea’s major dailies on Monday carried articles on their front pages on Japan’s House of Councillors election held on Sunday, with headlines focusing on the path being cleared for constitutional reform by the ruling coalition.
Two groups of lawyers on Monday mounted legal challenges to the results of Sunday’s elections in Japan, claiming that the disparity in the value of votes in different parts of the country made the poll unconstitutional.
Australia’s prime minister said on Sunday that his conservative coalition government was re-elected for a second three-year term, after a chaotic national election that left the country in a state of political paralysis for more than a week while officials scrambled to sort out who had won the tight race.
Legal teams in Japan will file lawsuits across the country on Monday seeking the nullification of the results of an upper house election, which saw the ruling Liberal Democratic Party-led (LDP) coalition win a landslide victory.
The Japanese ruling camp led by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe retained its majority in the parliament' s upper house through a victory on Sunday's election in the chamber and paved way to constitutional amendment as upper house lawmakers who support to review the country's war-renouncing constitution reached two-thirds majority, final election result showed early Monday.
The leader of Australia's Liberal-National Party (LNP) coalition, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, claimed victory in the federal election on Sunday eight days after polls closed.
With the Upper House election looming, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's campaign strategy, which has been to oversell his economic policies while being evasive about his true political goal of revising the pacifist Constitution, has raised concerns of leading the voters astray and sending Japan down a dangerous road.
Embattled Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Wednesday pulled within striking distance of the votes needed to form a narrow majority government in a cliffhanger election that has left the country in limbo and his leadership in doubt.
With Australia’s government in chaos amid a dramatic national election that failed to deliver an immediate winner, the country’s opposition leader called on Monday for the prime minister to resign, dubbing him “the David Cameron of the southern hemisphere”.
Relatives of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea in the 1970s and 1980s are concerned the issue will receive little attention during campaigning for the July 10 upper house election, with economic and social security issues largely in focus.
Tens of thousands of anti-Abe government protesters held simultaneous demonstrations across Japan on June 5, demanding the abolishment of national security legislation and urging voters to support opposition parties in the Upper House election.
Candidates opposed to a plan to relocate a key US military base within Okinawa gained a majority in the prefectural assembly election on Sunday, giving a boost to Governor Takeshi Onaga’s efforts to block construction of the new base in the island prefecture.
Thousands of protesters gathered in downtown Tokyo on Sunday to call for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to resign and for a law allowing the military to fight overseas to be overturned, as an election for parliament’s upper house draws near.
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday officially announced his decision to postpone a consumption tax hike scheduled for April by 2½ years, setting the stage for the upcoming House of Councillors election.
Following the announcement by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that polling for the upper house election will begin on July 10, both the ruling coalition and opposition parties on Thursday began their campaign offenses.
Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani on Monday ordered concerned security authorities to finalize a security plan for the upcoming elections, said the Presidential Palace.
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