Japan’s Ruling Party Opens Leadership Race to Choose Ishiba’s Successor

Five candidates compete for the biggest job of the liberal Democratic Party before an unpredictable vote in early October. The race has a slogan: “Change, LDP.”

Following destructive losses to both LDP and young partner Komeito, the party should have the chance to gain support that deprives the majority coalition in both parliamentary houses, and to act quickly to address the winning prices.

The new leader will still be the prime minister because the LDP remains as the number 1 party, while the opposition groups are very torn to create a coalition.

Kim, the LDP leader, must also face cooperation from the main opposition parties or continuous insecure movements and a short -lived leadership cycle.

The vote for the vote for the LDP parliamentarians and members is not open to the public. It is limited to 295 LDP parliamentary and base party member paying 1 million dues. This is less than 1% of Japan’s appropriate voters.

A candidate who secures the majority becomes a party leader. If no one wins the majority, there will be a flow between the two best candidates in the first round.

In order to be elected as the Prime Minister, the new party leader will need some votes from some opposition deputies in a parliamentary leadership game to be held in a day.

In 5 portions and races, former ministers are the former cabinet ministers of five candidates. They call them moderate conservatives because they emphasize the willingness of working with opposition groups. Agriculture Minister Shinjiro Koizumi and former Minister of Economic Security Sanae Takaichi are considered the best contestants.

Here is a summary of the candidates:

Shinjiro Koizumi, 44: The son of a former prime minister Junichiro Koizumi, a popular former prime minister, made his second offer after he ran against Ishiba when he campaign to reform the Scandal Mourning Party last year. As İshiba Minister of Agriculture, Koizumi published an emergency rice stock to lower prices and balance the supply. Koizumi promised to reconstruct his party and listen to people’s voices more closely in order to relieve prices such as increasing prices, increasing foreign population and public security. If elected, he will be the youngest leader in Japan since Hirobumi ITO, the first Japanese Prime Minister in 1885.

Sanae Takaichi, 64: A Protégée of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Takaichi lost last year while running to Ishiba. A revisionist of war and China Hawk regularly visit the temple of Yasukuni, which is seen by Beijing and Seoul, as a symbol of militarism. It supports more public expenditure and investment for growth and a powerful army. Paternalist supports family values, and a woman is a revision against civil law to allow the option to keep a separate surname for married couples as well as the emperor – a change sought by groups of rights, so that women leave their names.

Yoshimasa Hayashi, 64: Hayashi, Chief Minister of Ishiba, is a moderate promising stable wage increases, a strong economy and defense. He served as a number of important cabinet mission, including foreign, defense and education ministers. The politician trained by Harvard is fluent in English. Gi Gi Gi is a pop group that he has built with three parliamentary to make the guitar and piano accessible! He sings and plays at NS.

Toshimitsu Motigi, 69: Motigi, another Harvard graduate, has worked in key tasks, including foreign and trade ministers, and is known as a challenging trade negotiator in the first period of US President Donald Trump. Motigi said that the Japan-US alliance is the key to the diplomacy of the country of its country, and it is necessary to deepen the “confidence relationship with Trump.

Takayuki Kobayashi, 50: Kobayashi, a former Minister of Economic Security, who promised strong growth, defense and national unity, can divide the votes with Takaichi. Nicknamed KOBA-HAWK promises more challenging restrictions on foreign workers, and says that 2% of Japan’s GDP is insufficient.

Is the first woman prime minister? If elected, Takaichi, a former newscaster, a former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, will be Japan’s first female prime minister. The country is particularly in the international arena for gender equality, especially in politics.

Some experts are worried that the hardline conservative will bring back women’s progress. Others say that Japan’s revisionist views on war -time history can complicate ties with Beijing and Seoul.

In a policy speech on Friday, Takaichi said that he wanted good ties as an important neighbor with China and that his harsh comments about China were mostly related to the economy. He would not say he would visit Yasukuni if ​​he was the Prime Minister, but he stressed his “gratitude için for those who sacrificed their lives for the country and who were in Yasukuni.

Experts, cooperation with the opposition, Japan is faced with a tense security environment and Trump is expected to demand more defense expenditures, because the key cooperation with the opposition parties are vital. Although it is still unclear, the cooperation between the ruling coalition and the key opposition that focuses on security is possible and can contribute to political stability.

The new LDP leader and the Prime Minister will need help from the central-health groups, the Japan Innovation Party, or the Democratic Party for the people with which I ISHİN cooperated with the LDP’s budget bills.

Koizumi approached Ishin and visited Osaka Expo in August, where the party leader and Osaka Gov. Hirofumi was accompanied by Yoshimura. Hayashi’nin recently met with a senior Ishin deputy for dinner, while the motion of the two parties announced the desire to establish a coalition.