Japan ruling bloc to keep simple majority in upper house, may get 2/3: NHK exit poll

Reuters

21 July 2019 at 7:13 am

Supporters of Japan's Prime Minister and Liberal Democratic Party's leader Shinzo Abe holding placards wait for the start of Abe's speech on the last election campaign day ahead of Sunday's upper house election in Tokyo

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling bloc will keep a solid majority in parliament's upper house in Sunday's election and has a shot, together with allies, at keeping the two-thirds majority needed to keep his dream of revising the pacifist constitution alive, an NHK exit poll showed.

The NHK exit poll said Abe's Liberal Democratic Party and its junior partner, the Komeito party, would take between 67-77 of the 124 seats contested in election for the 245-seat upper house, which together with uncontested seats, assures them a majority.

To maintain the two-thirds majority needed to revise the constitution, the coalition and like-minded allies need to win 85 seats in Sunday's poll.

(Reporting by Kiyoshi Takenaka and Linda Sieg; Editing by Chang-Ran Kim)

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