Round 6: Tossup 3

Tobias Harris noted that this party’s current defense minister does not come from one of its “policy tribes”; instead, as fisheries minister, he opposed a seafood ban. This party distributed an anti-gaffe manual before the 2019 election, during which the former justice minister bought his wife votes. This party’s top faction dissolved in 2024 (10[1])after flouting the Political Funds (-5[1])Control Act (10[2])with (10[1])“slush fundraising.” (10[2])This party and the Innovation Party (10[2])devised a “population strategy” to limit foreign nationals. (10[1])Before its landslide victory (10[1])in a February 2026 snap election, (10[1])this party formed a minority government (10[2])without its traditional coalition partner in the neo-1955 system, (-5[1])Kōmeitō, (10[1])having lost (10[1])votes to the “anti-globalists” of Sanseitō. (10[2])For 10 points, the president of what party is her country’s first female (10[1])prime (10[1])minister, Sanae Takaichi? ■END■ (10[1]0[1])

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