Sanae Takaichi, Japan's first woman PM, secures mandate: LDP wins supermajority in winter snap polls

Japan's trailblazing Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, the nation's first female PM and LDP chief, led her Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to a stunning triumph in Sunday's winter snap elections, clinching 271 seats outright in the 465-member lower house- surging past the 261 needed for absolute majority. With ally Japan Innovation Party (Ishin), the coalition grabbed a two-thirds supermajority (328 projected seats), enabling overrides of the opposition-held upper house and turbocharging Takaichi's agenda despite LDP's recent scandals.

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