Quite similar thing happened in Brazil last year. The moment Trump imposed import tariffs and economic sanctions to a handful of supreme court justices and a few ministers (which were celebrated by the far-right led by Bolsonaro's son), the medium-to-low support rates for Lula increased a lot.

Anyway, let's just hope Takaichi won't bail out from dissolving the parliament.

I don't think that's a good idea though - they'll lose their connection with the local electorate, and the most dedicated Komeito supporters might feel less motivated to campaign for people that until a few months ago were their rivals.

The new agreement states that the Komeito will withdraw from having candidates in the constituencies, and then concentrate them in the proportional representation lists in each region.

I don't have data, but some analysts expect an average decrease of approx. 10,000 votes to the LDP **per constituency** (of course more populated places like certain regions in Tokyo could mean way more), which would mean many LDP legislators losing their seat (more in the link below).

The "kyouyo/gyaku-kyouyo" was the agreement model between LDP and Komeito, in which the supporters of the LDP provided votes to the Komeito in the proportional list, while the supporters of the Komeito voted for the LDP in all other districts that it didn't have a candidate (over 270)

Congratulations, Andreas!

From my favorite U.S. cartoonist @mluckovich.bsky.social (already weeks ago).

The recent Havaianas flip flops ad in which Fernanda Torres tell people to "start the new year not with the 'right foot' but with 'two feet'", and then the whole Brazilian far-right got mad and started a "boycott". But in some cities they went to buy all stock to only cut the stripes. Super smart 😂

Great job, Dylan!

Crosswords = palavras cruzadas
Word search = caça palavras

This post should have been a thread in which you bring an interview with Bolsonaro's fourth son, Jair Renan, where he says he brought a few books for his father. When asked which books, he answers "some word search"

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