Editorial
15:00 JST, November 12, 2024
Despite the crushing defeat in the House of Representatives election, the second Cabinet of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has been formed as if nothing happened.
The decisions of the Diet, which represents the people and is the highest organ of state power, must be respected. But the administration, which was born in such a forcible manner as to go against the normal course of constitutional government, could prolong the chaos in the country’s politics.
Ishiba was elected to continue to lead the government after the prime ministerial election in both the lower house and the House of Councillors.
In the first round of voting in the lower house, no one gained a majority of the votes, so a runoff was held between Ishiba and Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan President Yoshihiko Noda — the two lawmakers who received the most........