Dissolution of the Diet on the 9th, voting and counting of the House of Representatives election ...
New Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru, who became the 102nd Prime Minister of Japan, held a press conference and announced that the House of Representatives would be dissolved on the 9th, with the next House of Representatives election scheduled to be announced on the 15th and voting to take place on the 27th. He also stated that his economic measures would include subsidies for low-income earners and aim to raise the national minimum wage to 1,500 yen in the 2020s. Regarding the "slush fund scandal," he stated that he would "decisively carry out political reforms in the Reiwa era," including the early establishment of a third-party organization based on the revised Political Funds Control Act.
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