Two days after the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the elections, which all parties had defended in unison, have proceeded normally.
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Japan voted this Sunday in the by-elections for the Upper House of the National Parliament, two days after the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during an electoral act, which has not altered the development of the elections. Election day passed without incident.
As predicted, the Liberal Democratic Party (PLD) of the Japanese prime minister, Fumio Kishida, and his partner in the government coalition, the Komeito, will obtain more than half of the seats at stake in the upper house.
Now, it remains to be seen the participation in an election in the shadow of Abe’s murder. All the games defended in unison the holding of the elections despite the trauma that the crime has represented. “Elections are the pillar of democracy and democracy must be defended,” Kishida said on Friday.
“We cannot give in to violence and for this reason we will continue to fight the election campaign until the end. I hope that the people of Japan will think about it and work hard to protect our democracy,” the prime minister said.
The police continue to investigate the motivations of the alleged assassin, identified as Tetsuya Yamagami, who confessed to the authorities that he decided to attack Abe for his alleged links to a religious organization that had caused family problems for the suspect.
Source: Eitb
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