Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has dissolved the lower house of Parliament, paving the way for a Feb. 8 snap election.
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You’ll have to wait for an American to chime in on that, I’m afraid
I can’t remember anything similar off the top of my head, but I don’t know much in any real detail about American politics beyond recent history and some of the broad strokes before that.