Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will reportedly call for a snap election, a move that will ensure that the his Liberal Democratic Party will maintain its majority at the House of Representatives and will spell further delays to the Integrated Resorts (IR) bill.

Abe is making a strategic political gamble here that will ultimately favor his party. The prime minister is taking advantage of two circumstances: first, LDP’s soaring poll numbers that can be attributed to its response on North Korea’s missile tests; and second, the fractured leadership of LDP’s chief rival Democratic Party.

Three years ago, Abe called for a similar early vote and handed the LDP to an improved majority in the House of Representatives.

Dissolving the legislature now would disrupt plans to pass the Integrated Resorts Implementation bill, which will lay down the rules that will guide casino regulation, this year. The legislation for casino regulation in Japan has been approved last year.

The snap election will likely kill any chance for the IR Implementation Bill on making progress this year, further delaying any prospect of having casinos in the Land of the Rising Sun anytime soon.

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Sportech has reshuffled its upper management ranks after chief executive Ian Penrose and chief financial officer Mickey Kalifa informed the board of directors of their intention to leave the company. Kalifa’s finance role will be assumed by Richard Cooper.