Two of Japan’s largest opposition parties have announced plans to form a new centrist political bloc, raising the risks for Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi as she prepares to call a snap general election for next month.
The parliamentary union between the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDPJ) and the Komeito party in Japan’s more powerful lower house of parliament presents a more concerted challenge to Takaichi’s long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party.
It also comes as the Japanese political landscape has fractured in recent years, with the emergence of small populist parties that have sapped support from the country’s traditional political groups.
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