Japan’s ruling party votes to elect new leader and country’s next prime minister

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Japan’s ruling party votes to elect new leader and country’s next prime minister

Candidates in the upcoming leadership race for the ruling ******** Democratic Party (LDP) join hands after giving speeches for the ******** Democratic Party presidential election in Osaka, Japan on September 18, 2024.  

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Japan’s ruling party will elect the successor to outgoing Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Friday in a race likely to decide the next leader of the nation. 

The contest features a record nine candidates and could result in Japan’s youngest or first female premier or see a seasoned politician finally assume the post.

Kishida had thrown the ******** Democratic Party for a loop when he announced in August that he would not be running for its top office, effectively ending his three-year term. 

The winner of the LDP poll is expected to be approved as prime minister in a

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and will inherit a government marked by a

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and an economy in transition. The party has a majority in both chambers of the legislature, effectively ensuring its chief becomes the next prime minister.

Polls suggest that

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in the election include ex-environment minister Shinjiro Koizumi, economic security minister Sanae Takaichi and former defense minister Shigeru Ishiba.

Ishiba, 67, is running for the post for a fifth time and has

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of steadily raising interest rates and called for the establishment of an

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to deter threats from China and North Korea.

Takaichi, 63, is one of two women in the race and has argued that Japan’s economy needs

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and to strengthen in the fields of diplomacy and defense. 

The 43-year-old Koizumi has the least high-level government experience of the bunch and would be Japan’s youngest prime minister in the post–World War II era. He has

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social and economic reforms and to increase LDP transparency. 

If no candidate secures a simple majority among the many contenders, a run-off will be held between the two with the most votes in the first round.

Japan’s new leader will have to steer the country through a precarious economic and political *******.

Challenges facing the country include its transition from three decades of stagnation, mounting diplomatic and security challenges posed by China and a potential second Trump term in the U.S., and a demographic crisis as the country rapidly ages. 

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