Overview

• Tetsuo Saito informed Sanae Takaichi on Friday that Komeito plans to leave the governing coalition.
• Komeito’s departure ends a 26-year partnership and forces the LDP to seek votes from other parties to elect Takaichi in the upcoming Diet session.
• The LDP is expected to court backing from the Democratic Party for the People or Nippon Ishin no Kai, according to reporting on parliamentary math.
• Komeito and the DPP proposed limiting corporate donations to party headquarters and prefectural chapters while banning donations to groups led by individual politicians.
• The proposal would cap donations to a single party at ¥20 million per year, a limit that does not exist under current law.