Congratulating Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on his re-election, President Mahinda Rajapaksa today expressed his best wishes for continuing the economic policies advocated by the premier and in steering Japan to greater heights.
“Congratulations @AbeShinzo on your re-election. Best wishes for continuing “Abenomics” reforms and steering Japan to greater heights,” Rajapaksa wrote on Twitter.
Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its junior partner, the Komeito party, won 326 seats in Sunday’s poll to maintain a two-thirds “super-majority” in parliament.
Abe vowed on Monday to stick to his reflationary economic policies, tackle painful structural reforms and pursue his muscular security stance.
Turnout was an estimated record low of 53.3 percent, well below the 59.3 percent in a 2012 poll that returned Abe to power for a rare second term on pledges to reboot an economy plagued by deflation and an ageing, shrinking population.
In September, Abe became the first Japanese PM to visit Sri Lanka in 24 years. The visit to Sri Lanka on September 7 was the second leg of Abe’s South Asian tour - which also took him to Bangladesh - designed to strengthen economic ties with the region.
