Japan's 26th Senate Election Starting Voting

Xinhua News Agency, Tokyo, July 10 (Reporter Guo Dan) The 26th Senate Election of Japan ushered in the voting date on the 10th. A total of 545 candidates participated in the competition for 125 re -election seats.

On the same day, 46,000 voting points located across the country began to accept voting. A real -time invoicing will be issued on the evening of the day, and the final voting results will be announced in the early morning of the next day.

The Japanese Senate Election is held every 3 years, and each of which is re -elected half of the seats. According to the amendment to the Public Election Law adopted by the Japanese Congress in 2018, the total number of rated seats in the Japanese Senate will be added with 6 elections, which is increased from the original 242 to 248. The Senate elections in 2019 have added 3, and this time increased 3 to 248. In addition, there is a vacancies in the non -re -election constituencies, so a total of 125 seats participated in the re -election.

The ruling alliance consisting of the Japanese Liberal Democratic Party and the Gongming Party set the outcome of this election as "the number of seats in the governing alliance in the Senate is more than half". Since there are 70 non -re -election seats in the two parties, only 55 are required to win 55 Just a seat.

In the Senate election, whether the constitutional amendment for more than two -thirds of the seats became the focus of the public's attention. At present, the Japanese Liberal Democratic Party, the Restoration Club, the National Democratic Party, and the Gongming Party, who are under the banner of "Constitution", are regarded as constitutional power amendments. According to the Japanese Constitution, if the constitutional amendment forces in the two courtyards have exceeded two -thirds of the seats, the constitutional amendments can be initiated, and the House of Representatives has achieved this goal. In this Senate election, these four parties can only achieve two -thirds of the goals only need to win 82 seats.

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