TOKYO Cheap Carolina Panthers Jerseys , Dec. 14 (Xinhua) -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has, according to media exit polls, expanded his ruling coalition' s two-thirds parliamentary majority in a snap general election on Sunday.
The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is projected to win 294 in the 475-seat lower house of parliament, while its coalition Komeito ally is to win 34 seats, giving the ruling coalition a combined total of 328, far more than the 294 seats the coalition held before Abe called the snap vote.
The landslide win for Abe and his coalition came at a dismal time for the opposition camp which suffered intraparty conflicts, leadership woes and disarray. The Democratic Party of Japan Cheap Buffalo Bills Jerseys , which had 62 seats, failed to increase its seats in the election while the Japan Innovation Party, previously with 42 seats and the Party for Future Generations that had 19 seats, both lost ground, according to the exit polls.
However, the polls revealed the Japanese Communist Party has substantially increased its number of seats from eight, as a disgruntled yet apathetic public let their ballots Cheap Baltimore Ravens Jerseys , to some extent, do the talking Sunday.
The projected victory, which likely see the ruling bloc enjoy more than the 317-seat benchmark, means that Abe and the LDP, while being accused by the public, scholars and analysts of " runaway politics," "unilateral governance Cheap Atlanta Falcons Jerseys ," and of "harboring an autocratic, ultraconservative ideology," have won a "super majority" vote in the lower chamber.
Such claims of autocracy and nationalistic leanings of the Abe administration have been swirling after Abe and his cabinet of likeminded right-wingers, bulldozing through unpopular policies and legislative charters, have brushed aside the nation's constitution and enacted laws allowing the government to remilitarize the nation and suppress the public's "right to know."
The landslide victory also allowed Abe and his lawmakers in the lower chamber to override decisions made by the upper chamber, thus granting the prime minister carte blanche to run the country possibly through 2018.
"Abe will now have a clear run for the next four years, but while this was largely pre-determined there are a few issues around which Abe must now tread carefully Cheap Arizona Cardinals Jerseys ," political watcher Teruhisa Muramatsu told Xinhua.
"Along with the powerful Japanese Federation of Bar Associations and Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association, who are both hugely displeased with Abe's new secrecy law that came into effect on Dec. 10, the Keidanren - Japan's most powerful business lobby group - has seen its chairman Sadayuki Sakakibara slam Abe for opting not to implement the second sales tax hike on time," Muramatsu said.
Abe is not yet too big not to need powerful friends in high places in lobbies, like the Keidanren