Last Wednesday, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi held a meeting with the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner, the Innovation Party (Ishin), in which she announced her intention to dissolve Parliament and call for early elections on January 23.

That day will be the regular session of the Japanese parliament. The prime minister reportedly indicated January 27 or February 3 as likely dates for the campaign, with the election taking place on February 8 or 15.

This information was confirmed by LDP Secretary-General Shunichi Suzuki, who stated: “Prime Minister Takaichi communicated her intention to dissolve the House of Representatives during the Diet’s regular session.”

Although Takaichi, the first woman to lead the archipelago, enjoys a high approval rating (up to 62 %), her plan for early elections faces criticism from opposition parties, “who believe it could delay the approval of the initial budget proposal for fiscal year 2026, which begins in April, amid persistent inflation and stagnant wages.”

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Early elections in Germany will be held on 23 February 2025, according to an agreement reached between parliamentarians from the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the main opposition party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).

The lower house representatives reached this decision even with the support of the Liberals of the FDP recently expelled from the coalition and the Greens, who together with the Social Democrats form a minority government.

The announcement was made on Tuesday, November 12, after the meetings in the Bundestag, although the date has yet to be confirmed by the president of the nation, Frank-Walter Steinmeier.

The official must dissolve Parliament after the current chancellor, Olaf Scholz, “submits to a vote of confidence foreseeably on December 16, which he will lose due to being in the minority,” according to some local media.

Scholz wanted to submit to the vote of confidence on January 15, and had proposed that the elections be held at the end of March 2025, although he gave in to the advance of the date.

“Once the date of the vote of confidence is called, the deputies will in principle have 48 hours to vote. Steinmeier will then have a maximum of 21 days to dissolve parliament, a step which, once done, will trigger a 60-day period for holding elections.”

The parliamentarians voted in favor of the elections on 23 February after the coalition between the Social Democrats, Greens and Liberals broke up.

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This Sunday the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, announced the dissolution of the National Assembly, after suffering a wide defeat in the European elections, in which the far-right National Rally obtained a majority against Macron’s pro-European centrists. Le Pen’s party (first force in France) and the German conservative AfD party (2nd force in Germany), swept the elections.

The president issued a message to the country where he indicated that in the face of the events he could not act as if nothing had happened. He indicated: “I have decided to give back to you the power of decision over our parliamentary future through voting. Therefore, I am dissolving the National Assembly.”

The early elections will take place on June 30 and July 7 in the first and second rounds, respectively.

J’ai dissous ce soir l’Assemblée nationale. Une décision grave, lourde, mais avant tout un acte de confiance en vous, mes chers compatriotes. pic.twitter.com/EFeVCDzrlb

— Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) June 9, 2024

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The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Rishi Sunak, has ruled out plans to call early general elections, claiming that “it is not what the country wants”, so in principle he is sticking to the plan that foresees elections at the beginning of 2025, despite the internal criticism within the Conservative Party.

The ‘Tory’ conference in Manchester has revealed internal cracks, led among other personalities by former Prime Minister Liz Truss, who has insisted in her messages in favor of a tax cut, although it was precisely her failed tax plan that cost her the placed at the head of the Government.

Sunak has advocated “continuing” with his current work, without surprises, and although he said in an interview with Sky News that he is not afraid to subject his management to the verdict of the polls, for now he is not contemplating it.

The polls place the Labor Party with a wide advantage, which aspires to re-emerge after the comfortable majority achieved in 2019 by the then ‘Tory’ leader, Boris Johnson, now removed from the political front line after a cascade of scandals around him.

“It is not what the country wants,” Sunak declared. “What people want is for politicians to improve their lives,” added the Downing Street tenant, who assumed the reins of the Executive in November 2022 after an accelerated internal process.

Sunak, in fact, responded with “of course” to the question about his possible interest in remaining prime minister after future elections.

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This Sunday, Spain held the municipal and regional elections. After knowing the results, unfavorable for Pedro Sánchez and the PSOE, the president of the Spanish government announced the early elections for next July 23.

Pedro Sánchez’s party lost several autonomous communities in the recent municipal elections. As a measure that allows him to regain power, the president spoke with King Felipe VI to publicize the decision to call early general elections.

According to the dpa news agency: “In an institutional statement without questions in Moncloa, Sánchez has reported that he has spoken with King Felipe VI to inform him of the call for an extraordinary Council of Ministers and the dissolution of the Parliament. “I assume the results”, said the President of the Government, who has chosen to submit the “democratic mandate to the popular will.”

With this quick and risky movement, Sánchez puts the voters in a position to quickly choose whether to leave the way clear for VOX and PP, who were favored this Sunday, or mobilize to prevent them from advancing.

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