Shinzo Abe: Japanese voters back party of former PM amid shooting fallout
by Justin McCurry in Nara from World news | The Guardian on (#618GW)
Exit polls show LDP retaining power with comfortable election victory as country mourns
Japan's ruling party has won a comfortable victory in elections overshadowed by the assassination of the former prime minister, Shinzo Abe.
Exit polls showed that the Liberal Democratic party (LDP), which Abe led until he resigned in 2020, had secured more than half the 125 seats being contested in the 248-seat upper house.
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