The day after Sunday¡¯s Lower House election, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was looking triumphant.
He told a news conference he had won a new, stronger voter mandate, trumpeting the 1 million extra ballots his Liberal Democratic Party secured this time compared with the previous election in 2012.
¡°Voters now expect much more from us to keep moving forward by maintaining political stability,¡± Abe said.
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