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Japan PM calls snap general election, delaying budget and data-privacy amendment

By Jeyup S Kwaak ( January 20, 2026, 06:00 GMT | Insight) -- Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s decision on Monday to call a snap election will give voters a chance to endorse her mandate. The vote will not only determine the future of the Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner, the Japan Innovation Party, but also delay ratification of the next fiscal year’s budget and a long-awaited overhaul of Japan’s data privacy law.Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi late Monday announced the dissolution of the National Diet’s lower house, calling it a chance for the people to cast a vote of confidence in her mandate. At the press conference she said she was putting the premiership on the line and hoped to collect enough votes to win her Liberal Democratic Party, or LDP, and coalition-partner Japan Innovation Party, an absolute majority in the House of Representatives....

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