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‘Sana-mania’ grips Japan as ultra-conservative Takaichi expected to secure election landslide (www.theguardian.com)

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The country’s first female PM is the object of a personality cult revolving around everything from her outfits and snacks to her favourite pink pen

When the LDP’s conservative wing forced a leadership election to replace the embattled Ishiba in October last year, many expected his ally Shinjiro Koizumi – the young, telegenic son of a previous prime minister – to win.

Instead, Japan’s party of government for most of the past seven decades took a gamble on his ultra-conservative rival, Sanae Takaichi, installing her as the country’s first female prime minister. If opinion polls are correct, that gamble is about to pay off in ways even her strongest allies could not have imagined.

In an eventful four months, Takaichi has met Donald Trump – who this week offered an endorsement and an invitation to the White House in March – as well as Xi Jinping and South Korea’s president, Lee Jae Myung. She sparked an unresolved row with Beijing over the future of Taiwan, spooked bond markets with promises of sweeping tax cuts, and faced fresh scrutiny over her links with the disgraced Unification church.

Despite the ups and downs, she has emerged as the LDP’s most effective weapon, the object of a personality cult revolving around everything from her choice of outfits and train journey snacks to the pink pen she uses to take notes in parliament.

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[–] RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago

The majority of the Seats are FPTP, so it's a common trend to chase the crazies.

I think we need to blame voters less and systems more, all non-proportional system have a rightwards shift built in.

In theory this could work leftwardly but as these countries tend to depend heavily on capitalist media to tell voters who is capable of winning in their district, the leftward shift is usually described as unrealistic & impossible, whereas the right shift is usually exaggerated and considered a real threat to the center-right/center-left.

You see the same effect in the UK, US, Russia (when they had elections), etc.

Whereas Ireland, Scandanvia, tend to have stable liberal-to-progressive governments rather than flip between a center-left & center-right establishment party that is constantly chasing far right voters.

I think the best system to counteract this is STV (used in Ireland) as it:

Delivers proportional results
Removes the need for the media to tell you who can win because you can rank who you like
Doesn't use party-lists (one of the issues with PR is the list system invites corruption as loyalty to the list maker, is what secures your job).