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Explainer-Japan Parliament Votes on New PM Next Tuesday - How Might It Go?

TOKYO - Liberal Democratic Party leader Sanae Takaichi's bid to become Japan's first female prime minister regained momentum this week, as alliance discussions with another political party moved forward. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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Japan's Liberal Democratic Party and the Restoration Party said on Friday (October 17) that they had made "significant progress" in negotiations on a coalition. Diet members are expected to vote next Tuesday (October 21), with Sanae Takaichi expected to become Japan's first female prime minister.

Japan will hold an extraordinary session of the National Diet to elect a new Prime Minister, who will replace Shigeru Ishiba. The Diet, composed of the House of Representatives and the House of Trustees, is the country’s legislative body charged with creating laws, amending policies and supervising the Executive. In this context, the Liberal Democratic Party (PLD) and the Constitutional Democratic Party (PDCJ) have agreed to hold the vote on Oct…

The libertarian party Innovation has formally demarcated the country's opposition in a decision that paves the way for the nomination of the president of the government's Liberal Democratic Party, Sanae Takaichi, as Japan's new prime minister after the parliamentary vote that will take place on October 21st.

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party (PLD) and the opposition Constitutional Democratic Party (PDC) agreed this Friday that the parliamentary vote to elect the new Prime Minister of Japan will take place on Tuesday, October 21, following the resignation of outgoing President Shigeru Ishiba last month. The decision was adopted following a meeting between the chairmen of the Committees for Diet Affairs (Parliament) of both formations, as reported b…

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