lauded for a smooth performance during the covert 19 crisis in contrast to current prime minister shinzo abi and with a postponed a lympics a major theme of the campaign stressed safety and budget cuts. for more on this let's bring in correspondent julian rial in japan julian thanks for joining us tell me does your recall quicky have her handling of the kovac 19 pandemic to thank for her victory. absolutely but over 19 pandemic has been the biggest issue without question in this whole election process and even the 2nd biggest issue be the olympic games which have been delayed until next year or we see also feeds into the to the to the crisis that we've experienced japan has got off fairly lightly in terms of the numbers of cases of quoted one thing but tokyo has been the epicenter of a problem here we are experiencing something of an uptick a 2nd spike if you like in cases going has been very resolute in the way that she has handled the crisis up until now and i think she's and bought it for that because people can imagine the government has handled the crisis. has very adamant from the outs