Japan’s upstart populist-conservative party Sanseito is causing major headaches for Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in this weekend’s election, peeling off just enough votes to bring Ishiba’s minority coalition government down.
Sanseito is a new party, founded in 2020 and winning its first parliamentary seat in 2022. Its trajectory is similar to other populist-conservative parties that became influential over the past decade in the United Kingdom and Europe , and for that matter President Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement in the United States, though Sanseito could not presently dream of…
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