US EditionWill Japan Get Its First Woman PM? Decision Today, 5 Candidates in Contention
The Liberal Democratic Party seeks new leadership amid political instability and economic stagnation after Prime Minister Ishiba’s resignation, with five candidates competing for the top post.
- On Saturday , the Liberal Democratic Party will choose a new leader to replace Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, with LDP lawmakers and one million rank-and-file party members voting among five candidates.
- Following growing damage to his minority government, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on September 7 that he would step down after the Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito lost their governing majority in lower house and upper house election defeats.
- Veteran ministers such as Yoshimasa Hayashi, 64, Chief Cabinet Secretary, Toshimitsu Motegi, 69, and Takayuki Kobayashi, 50, stress experience with fiscal discipline and growth priorities.
- The lower house will then choose a new prime minister in a vote expected in mid-October, and the new LDP leader may need votes from opposition lawmakers to take office.
- Facing long-term disarray, the Liberal Democratic Party's choice could determine if Japan regains stability after election defeats and scandals last year, requiring coalitions with Ishin or the Democratic Party for the People.
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Sanae Takaichi will succeed Shigeru Ishiba, who had resigned from the government in early September.
Will Japan get its first woman PM? Decision today, 5 candidates in contention
Japan's long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party is set to choose a new leader on Saturday after the country's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba announced that he is stepping down. Here's a look at the 5 top candidates in the race ahead of the polls.
The Liberal Democratic Party (PLD), in power almost without interruption in the archipelago for seven decades, must choose who will succeed the resigned Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba. ...
Sanae Takaichi, a policy of strong conservative and nationalist inclination, aspires to become the first woman to lead a government in Japan. 64 years old, and with a long career as a minister in different cabinets, leads the polls to preside over the Liberal Democratic Party (PLD) in Saturday’s primaries. The winner of those internal elections has a very high chance of becoming the next prime minister of the Asian country, after a vote by Parli…
Weak and unpopular, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which has led Japan almost continuously since the mid-1950s, has appointed its new leader on Saturday, October 4. Of the five candidates, two are favourites: a 44-year-old reformer, the current Agriculture Minister Shinjiro Koizumi, and the very right-wing Sanae Takaichi, who will become the first woman to become Prime Minister if she wins.
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