key takeaways
- The Liberal Democratic Party’s (LDP) upper house election post-mortem painted a picture of a party facing a wide-reaching crisis, implicitly indicting Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru’s leadership.
- The release of the report has already triggered the resignations of senior party leaders and could lead to a snowball effect against the prime minister as his ability to persuade or threaten lawmakers erodes.
- It is increasingly likely that the party will decide to hold an early leadership election as it looks for a way out of its crisis.
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