He added that the LDP has already drafted an amendment proposal, but that they will pursue further discussion to win support from the opposition parties. The LDP's strong performance in the election will disappoint the opposition, which is still struggling to form a coherent anti-LDP coalition, and those who hoped to see greater gender balance in the second chamber. A record number of women ran for election this year, but the LDP fielded comparatively few female candidates to its left-leaning rivals.
Ahead of Sunday's vote, Waqas Adenwala, an analyst with the Economist Intelligence Unit EIU , said the LDP's popularity had been boosted by a fractured opposition and the party's "successful track record of economic and political stability. Opposition parties have attempted to balance the dominance of the LDP, which has been in power since , by fielding so-called unified candidates in an attempt to not split the vote, but this appears to have had a limited effect.
Japanese politics is still dealing with the Democratic Party's disintegration. The onetime opposition party split for good in after years of turmoil, into the right-wing Party of Hope, led by Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike, and the CDP. Both failed to make gains in that year's general election, splitting the anti-LDP vote and leaving Abe more powerful than ever. Although Abe has won the general election, the lack of a two-thirds majority will make it difficult for him to achieve a longtime goal of changing the country's post-WWII constitution, which contains language that bans the country from maintaining armed forces.
Japan's current constitution came into effect in after its defeat by allied forces in World War II.
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