日本自民黨在東京都議會選舉中慘敗

Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic party has gone down to a disastrous defeat in elections to the Tokyo assembly as city governor Yuriko Koike’s new party swept to victory.

在日本東京都議會選舉中，日本執政黨自民黨(Liberal Democratic party)遭遇慘敗，東京都知事小池百合子(Yuriko Koike)領導的新政黨大獲全勝。

Forty-nine out of the fifty candidates standing for her Tomin First party won, and with the support of independents and minor parties she will have a comfortable majority in the 127-member assembly.

小池百合子所領導的“都民第一會”(Tomin First)的50位候選人有49人獲勝，在獨立人士和少數黨派的支持下，她將穩獲127議席的東京議會的多數席位。

Prime minister Shinzo Abe’s LDP, previously the largest party in the assembly with 60 seats, held on to just 21 with three constituencies left to declare.

日本首相安倍晉三(Shinzo Abe)領導的自民黨曾是東京議會的最大黨派，擁有60個席位。此次僅保住21個席位，還有3個選區尚未公佈選舉結果。

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The result belies the stability of Japanese politics in recent years, giving Ms Koike’s brand new party a dominant role in Japan’s capital. It carries the implicit threat that she could mount a similar insurgent campaign against the LDP in a national election.

這一結果否定了最近幾年日本政治的穩定局面，小池百合子領導的全新政黨將在日本首都發揮主導作用。這帶有一個隱含的威脅：她可能會在全國大選中對自民黨發起類似攻勢。

“We should frankly acknowledge this was a historic defeat,” said Shigeru Ishiba, an LDP member of parliament and leadership rival of Mr Abe’s. “There was a lot of influence on this election from national politics.” The LDP campaign was marked by a procession of gaffes and scandals.

“我們應坦率承認，這是一次歷史性失敗，”自民黨議員、曾與安倍晉三競爭黨魁職位的石破茂(Shigeru Ishiba)表示，“國家層面的政治對此次選舉有很大影響。”自民黨的競選活動受到一連串失誤和醜聞的影響。

Ms Koike, a former LDP defence and environment minister who defied Mr Abe to run for the governorship last year, was immediately forced to deny that she plans a return to national politics.

小池百合子曾擔任自民黨政府的防衛大臣和環境大臣，她去年不理會安倍晉三的意見，執意競選東京都知事。此次她很快被迫否認她計劃迴歸全國政壇。