Junya Ogawa, leader of the opposition Centrist Reform Alliance, made up of the liberal Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (PD) and the center-right Komeito party, has confirmed the dissolution of this political bloc, born to confront the ruling coalition led by the current Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi.
After the breakup, representatives of Komeito will return to the structure of their own party, while the parliamentarians of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan plan to promote a new political organization, after failing the negotiations to constitute a single unified force.
"I deeply regret that we were unable to achieve the merger into a single party, which was our main objective," Ogawa stated at a press conference, in which he specified that the new political formation should be ready before the start of the autumn session of the Diet, the Japanese Parliament.
The alliance, originally driven by several deputies from the Lower House, suffered a severe setback in the elections held in February 2026, in which it only obtained 49 of the 645 seats, far below the large majority held by Takaichi's coalition, with 316 seats.
The return of Komeito to its traditional configuration and the PD's intention to reorganize under a new acronym highlight the fracture in the opposition field, a context that will likely reinforce the political dominance of the Prime Minister.