Japan PM 🇯🇵 to hold snap election this year

Japanese premier Shinzo Abe is considering a snap election as early as next month, reports said Sunday, as he sees recovering public support with attention focused on tensions over North Korea.

Abe floated the idea of holding a vote on October 22 or October 29 in meetings with senior ruling party officials, Jiji Press and the Asahi Shimbun reported, citing unnamed government and ruling party sources.

The reports come as Abe has seen a recovery in public support after the figures plummeted in the past few months because of a series of problems, including allegations of favouritism to a friend in a business deal that Abe strongly denies.

Public support for Abe had fallen to the lowest level of his premiership in July, but since has recovered as Pyongyang raised global tensions with repeated missile and nuclear tests including missile launches over Japan. His popularity is now hovering around 40 percent.

UCJ, UNILORIN.