party who quadrupled their seat tally from NUMBER_TOKEN to NUMBER_TOKEN. this party also known as ishin is a right-wing populist party from osaka who advocate for intense deregulation and while they did well they unfortunately don't have much appeal outside of their home region which means that they're unlikely to actually threaten the ldp anytime soon despite a strong performance this year now we should be clear this doesn't amount to a ringy endorsement of the ldp it's still their worst performance since they briefly lost power in NUMBER_TOKEN and they were likely helped by the fact that postcovid voters wanted some stability but it's nonetheless a better result than some expected and it looks at least possible that the ldp might be able to run a stable government without rba you get the point though from the ldp's point of view this was a pretty good result they did better than expected kept their majority and at least looked like they might have moved on from our bay but while it was a good result for the ldp it wasn't such a good result for japanese politics more generally turnout was pretty low at just NUMBER_TOKEN percent pretty much unchanged from the NUMBER_TOKEN in NUMBER_TOKEN but well below the historical long-term average of NUMBER_TOKEN percent and the fact that the opposition still couldn't capitalize on the relative unpopularity of today's ldp goes to show that there still isn't really a credible opposition in japan the democratic party's brief stint in power was so chaotic that it doesn't really matter how bad the ldp are doing voters will still prefer them to the alternatives essentially even as the ldp becomes less and less popular japanese voters don't have a real alternative which just isn't good for japanese democracy so what do you think is the ldp's continuing electoral success a testament to their competency or is it just that japanese politics is completely broken without any functioning opposition let us know your thoughts in the comments below like i said at the start we'd really appreciate it if you checked out the tldr store there you can find copies of our books high quality enamel pin badges and more including most countries and of course japan get NUMBER_TOKEN off by using code kashida and know that by doing so you're helping to support content like this also make sure you subscribe the channel and hit the bell icon to be notified every time we release a new video especially thanks to our patreon backers who make videos like this one possible and if you want to see your name at the end of videos then you too can back us on patreon the link to that is in the description
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