Japan’s Prime Minister Resigns After Conservative Party’s Historic Defeat

Tokyo (AP) – Prime Minister of Japan Shigeru Ishiba On Sunday, he announced that he would resign after increasing calls from the party. Historical defeat In the parliamentary elections in July.

Ishiba, who took office in October, said that he resigned as prime minister and as the president of the conservative liberal Democratic Party.

Ishiba, a 68 -year -old centrifier, resisted the demands of the right opponents to resign in his own party. He argued that Japan wanted to avoid a political gap at a time when he faced significant domestic and international challenges. US TariffsIncreased prices and increasing voltages in Asia-Pacific.

At a press conference on Sunday night, Ishiba announced that his party aimed to take responsibility for the loss of summer election, but first decided to make progress in tariff negotiations with the US. He described this as a matter of national interest.

“Who seriously negotiates with a government that says that the leader has resigned?” He said Ishiba.

He said that the moment came by US President Donald Trump with an order on Friday. Lower tariffs in Japanese cars and other products From 25% to 15%.

“After reaching a milestone in the US tariff negotiations, I decided that it was time to lead for a successor after reaching a milestone.”

The resignation came the day before deciding whether the party’s party’s party would take a virtual insecure action against him if he was approved.

To prevent this step, he said, yapılık a painful decision to resign, because it would cause a critical division within the party, and that’s definitely not my intention ”.

Ishiba said it would launch a process to vote for a party leadership to choose its expected place in October. He will remain as prime minister until the Parliament is selected and approved by a new leader.

Ishiba’s leadership of only one year underlines the instability of Japan’s minority government.

Ishiba, a Maverick who won the leadership in its fifth initiatives, said voters regretted that voters could not meet the expectations of change. “As a result, I couldn’t go to my own style and I wonder how I can do better,” he said.

Salary increases, agricultural reforms and Japan’s security, such as further strengthening the unfinished jobs, leaving behind, although he regretted, he said he would not run in the next leadership race. He asked his future successor to deal with the problems he cared about.

In July, Ishiba’s ruling coalition could not guarantee an important parliamentary election in the upper parliament with 248 -seat upper Assembly and weakened its government. Only two weeks after Ishiba took over, followed a defeat in a stronger lower house in October, which the party -led coalition lost its majority in October.

Liberal democratic deputies supporting the prime minister, those who lost the chair before Ishiba began to work in connection with the corruption scandals ultra conservatives, he said. The public class showed that Ishiba had the opposite effect on the resignation of Ishiba and caused its support to grow.

After the loss of the Liberal Democratic Party last week, he called for Ishiba to resign after the party’s call to “full revision”.

Taro Aso and a conservative heavyweight known for his anti-Ishiba stance, a minister and a few deputy ministers in the Ishiba cabinet asked others to follow the case.

Former Minister of Health Norihisa Tamura said that the best way to improve and progress in the public broadcaster NHK in the early hours of Sunday, the best way to improve and progress in a talk -show that Ishiba “solve the dispute before the vote on Monday. Tamura, party, economic measures and the next parliamentary session on the ways to gain opposition support, he said.

Among the possible candidates who will replace IShiba, the Minister of Agriculture Shinjiro Koizumi, as well as former Ultra Conservative Minister of Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaichi and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi, moderate and former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s protein.

The next party leader, who lacks the majority in both houses, will be forced to work with the main opposition parties to pass the invoices, facing experts or constant risk of insecure action.

However, the opposition parties were very torn to create a coalition to overthrow the government.

Voters say they want to see that the party is moving and descending, but they are worried about uncertainty.

Office worker Takahiro Uchi welcomed the resignation of Ishiba as he hoped to change, “But there is also uncertainty and concern about who will take over the next.” Masataka Nishioka, who works for a dental equipment company, said, “I hope a kind of politics that really makes life easier for everyone,” he said.