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Autumn 2021 was hectic for Japanese politics. Elections of new representatives of the Japanese Parliament and anew President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) were to be held. The situation was aggravated by the COVID-19 epidemic and, in connection with that, the declining ratings of the governing party and Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, which fell to critically low levels. To improve the situation, the LDP had to take extraordinary steps, such as electing a new national leader, changing the party's leadership, setting up a new government, and holding off-year elections to the lower parliamentary chamber on October 31, with new political ideas and fresh faces in the party's leadership.
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