日本自民党在东京都议会选举中惨败

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.

在日本东京都议会选举中，日本执政党自民党(Liberal Democratic party)遭遇惨败，东京都知事小池百合子(Yuriko Koike)领导的新政党大获全胜。

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.

小池百合子所领导的“都民第一会”(Tomin First)的50位候选人有49人获胜，在独立人士和少数党派的支持下，她将稳获127议席的东京议会的多数席位。

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.

日本首相安倍晋三(Shinzo Abe)领导的自民党曾是东京议会的最大党派，拥有60个席位。此次仅保住21个席位，还有3个选区尚未公布选举结果。

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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.

这一结果否定了最近几年日本政治的稳定局面，小池百合子领导的全新政党将在日本首都发挥主导作用。这带有一个隐含的威胁：她可能会在全国大选中对自民党发起类似攻势。

“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.

“我们应坦率承认，这是一次历史性失败，”自民党议员、曾与安倍晋三竞争党魁职位的石破茂(Shigeru Ishiba)表示，“国家层面的政治对此次选举有很大影响。”自民党的竞选活动受到一连串失误和丑闻的影响。

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.

小池百合子曾担任自民党政府的防卫大臣和环境大臣，她去年不理会安倍晋三的意见，执意竞选东京都知事。此次她很快被迫否认她计划回归全国政坛。