Politics Abe faction officially disbanded, Aso faction LDP’s last remaining bloc

The former Abe faction of the Liberal Democratic Party, officially known as the Seiwa Seisaku Kenkyūkai (清和政策研究会), was formally dissolved on Wednesday. Once headed by the late PM Abe, the group submitted its application for disbandment to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.


It is the fifth LDP faction to disband in the wake of a political fundraising scandal, following the earlier dissolution of the Moriyama, Kishida, Motegi, and Nikai factions. A large number of lawmakers implicated in the scandal for failing to declare income from faction-related fundraising events had belonged to the Abe faction. The Aso faction remains the only faction within the LDP. It has stated it will continue its activities, maintaining that it correctly reported all political funds.

n response to the scandal over political fundraising parties involving LDP factions, this is the fifth LDP faction to complete the disbandment procedure following and leaves the Aso faction as the only remaining faction within the party. The former Abe faction included most of the lawmakers failing to record funds they received in their political funds reports. The Aso Faction has decided to continue to exist, claiming that there were no failures to report income and expenditure on their political funds reports.

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