Ruling and opposition parties avoid tradeoffs in manifestos

key takeaways

• The major parties have issued their policy platforms ahead of the start of the general election campaign.
• There are many similarities across the documents, but none more than the lack of details about how the parties would pay for their new programs.
• Most importantly, the LDP manifesto shows the total embrace of Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae’s economic policy program, signaling that the prime minister herself will not pivot on fiscal policy absent extraordinary market pressure.