snap election

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In Shinzo Abe: Second term and Abenomics
…summer compelled him to call snap elections for the lower house in an attempt to strengthen his already formidable majority there. The DPJ, which had rebranded itself as the Democratic Party after merging with the Japan Innovation Party in 2016, effectively voted itself out of existence in September 2017. DPJ…
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