Ishin says 'big progress' made in coalition talks with LDP

The Japan Innovation Party and the Liberal Democratic Party made “big progress” in talks towards a possible coalition, party executives said on Friday, bringing LDP chief Sanae Takaichi closer to clinching the premiership next week.

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“Both parties agree that big progress has been made today,” Fumitake Fujita, co-head of Japan Innovation Party, known as Ishin, told reporters.

The right-leaning Ishin, which had also been courted by the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party (CDP) for a rival three-way coalition with the Democratic Party for the People (DPFP), had pulled out of those talks, Fujita also said.