Japan’s LDP, Nippon Ishin Agree to Form Coalition Govt

20 Ottobre 2025

Tokyo, Oct. 20 (Jiji Press)–The leaders of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party and Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Innovation Party) signed an agreement Monday to form a coalition government between the two parties. The pact, inked by LDP President Sanae Takaichi and Nippon Ishin chief Hirofumi Yoshimura at a meeting in the Diet, or the country’s parliament, on Monday night, features a plan to reduce the number of seats in the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the Diet, by 10 pct during an extraordinary Diet session that begins Tuesday. Nippon Ishin will not take any ministerial posts but will instead support the LDP from outside the cabinet. The change in the LDP’s coalition partner from Komeito to Nippon Ishin marks a new chapter in Japanese politics. Nippon Ishin plans to vote for Takaichi in the prime ministerial nomination elections in the Diet on Tuesday. With some independent lawmakers also considering doing so, this all but ensures that the LDP chief will be selected as the successor to outgoing Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba. Takaichi will become the country’s first female prime minister. Takaichi has proposed offering multiple ministerial posts to Nippon Ishin, but many in the party said it would be preferable to cooperate from outside the cabinet for now, in order to assess whether the agreed policies are implemented. In response, Takaichi plans to tap Nippon Ishin Diet affairs chief Takashi Endo, who has connections with many lawmakers on both the ruling and opposition sides, as a special adviser to the prime minister if she becomes prime minister and forms a cabinet. She hopes Endo’s appointment will help stabilize her administration. “Without political stability, we can’t implement strong economic or diplomatic policies,” Takaichi said after her meeting with Yoshimura. The Nippon Ishin leader said he wants to pursue politics that will move the country forward. The agreement includes a commitment to submit a lawmaker-sponsored bill to the extraordinary Diet session to reduce the number of Lower House seats by 10 pct, which Nippon Ishin had set as a prerequisite for joining the coalition with the LDP. On a review of political donations by corporations and other organizations, the pact only says that the two parties will seek to reach an agreement by the end of Takaichi’s term as LDP leader, which concludes at the end of September 2027. On social security reform, a key policy priority for Nippon Ishin, the agreement includes a plan to lower social insurance premiums for the working generation. Additionally, the agreement calls for legislation to scrap the consumption tax on food for two years and to enact a bill related to Nippon Ishin’s “secondary capital” initiative during next year’s ordinary Diet session. After forming a cabinet, Takaichi intends to order the compilation of economic measures to tackle inflation and submit a supplementary budget bill for fiscal 2025 to the extraordinary Diet session. In this regard, the two parties have agreed to have the Diet enact a bill during the session to abolish the gasoline tax surcharge and not to provide uniform cash handouts to citizens. On the Constitution, the LDP and Nippon Ishin have agreed to aim to revise war-renouncing Article 9 and create an emergency clause. They will establish a council to draft related provisions while planning to set up permanent committees in the Constitution commissions of both Diet chambers. They said they aim to submit a proposal on an emergency clause to the Diet in 2026. Other agreements include an early revision of Japan’s three key security documents. After assuming the LDP presidency on Oct. 4, Takaichi moved to seek cooperation from Nippon Ishin and the Democratic Party for the People to expand the coalition framework. Following Komeito’s decision on Oct. 10 to leave the ruling coalition with the LDP, Takaichi accelerated efforts to form a coalition government with Nippon Ishin, which has made policy demands in 12 areas, including economy and finance, social security and political reform. END [Copyright The Jiji Press, Ltd.] 

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