key takeaways
- Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae has continued to consolidate her political position, increasing her chances of building a durable administration.
- She has benefited greatly from high approval ratings, a result of both her personal popularity and support for her policies.
- This in turn has enabled her to stabilize her government’s control of the Diet, both by enticing independents into the coalition to secure a lower house majority and easing doubts about the ability of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and Ishin no Kai to cooperate.
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