key takeaways
- Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru abruptly announced that the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) would withhold nominations for the upcoming general election from some scandal-implicated lawmakers.
- This decision, which may have been driven by tepid approval ratings, is a gamble: Ishiba is hoping to rally the public behind him, minimize the LDP’s general election losses, and outmaneuver intra-party rivals and opposition parties.
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