Japan’s Hagiuda Says No-Confidence Motion Could Dissolve Diet

The National Diet building in Tokyo.Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg
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The policy chief for Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party said a no-confidence motion being considered by an opposition party may be a cause for dissolving parliament, leading to a general election.

Koichi Hagiuda, head of the Policy Research Council at the LDP, made the remarks on a Sunday television news program amid ongoing speculation that Prime Minister Fumio Kishida may call an early election.