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Is it true that there's no Japanese Prime Minister right now?
My kids just told me Abe isn't the PM right now because the gov't has dissolved for elections. Wha-ah-ah? Does it work like that? They also seem to think there's a very good chance that the LDP won't select Abe to lead the party (and therefore be PM) after the elections.
This seems to run completely counter to all the implied stuff I see in the English-language foreign press . . . . They seem to assume if the LDP is in, Abe will keep on with the Abenomics, the re-arming, the eroding of the constitution . . . .
(My kids are taking social studies classes in Japanese schools, and they were very sure they were right. I'm not sure why I'm checking in with you guys, but I would like to have it confirmed/denied, and I'd like to hear your opinions about the process.)
Update: The kids both say there is no PM right now, and even their grandmother is siding with them. So . . . either the Japanese school system has been broken for decades, or they are ganging up with me.
They are getting frustrated that I am questioning this. They said, "if you google it instead of asking on Yahoo! Answers, you'll actually get an answer." Hmmmm.
*ganging up ON me.
Article 54. When the House of Representatives is dissolved, there must be a general election of members of the House of Representatives within forty (40) days from the date of dissolution, and the Diet must be convoked within thirty (30) days from the date of the election.
MM: The logic is compelling. The parliament is dissolved, the PM is a member of Parliament, therefore, if he's not a member of parliament, how can he be PM? Can't find any bald statement of this, though.
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- thecheapest902Lv 76 years agoFavorite Answer
Abe is still PM. Abe may quit if LDP lost the election on 14th.
Addition:
Some lawyers are answering here your update question as to whether PM is still PM after dissolution of lower house.
http://www.bengo4.com/other/1146/1287/b_273939/
在職要件説ですと，ご質問のような疑問が出てきます。
しかし，内閣総理大臣は解散により国会議員の地位を失っても，
内閣総辞職の時期を
「総選挙後の後に初めて国会の召集があったとき」
としている憲法７０条により，
内閣総��大臣としての地位は失わないと理解されています。
It says Abe is still PM according to Article 70 of Japanese constitution.
And Article 71 says "In the cases mentioned in the two preceding articles, the Cabinet shall continue its functions until the time when a new Prime Minister is appointed. "
This means. Abe and other ministers shall stay as ministers until a new PM is appointed.
http://japan.kantei.go.jp/constitution_and_governm...
Addition2:
>If the LDP loses the election, Abe can't be the Prime Minister, can he?
>Do you mean he'll quit politics and not be a gi-in?
If LDP does not get a majority in lower house even with their partner, Komeito, Abe legally can't be PM. But this is very unlikely.
Abe says that if LDP decreases the seats in this election(even if LDP still has a majority), he will quit PM voluntarily. This is what's possible somehow.
I don't think he will quit as a Diet member.
- Anonymous6 years ago
lmao
yes indeed
