Sanae Takaichi expected to become Japan’s first female PM after winning ruling party leadership | Japan
After the election of Sanae Takaichi’s leader of the director of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), Japan is about to get the first female prime minister – this is a victory that should be found as the new leader of the country in the middle of the month.
Takaichi, who expressed his admiration for Margaret Thatcher in his search for a “strong and prosperous” Japan on the international stage, defeated his moderate rival Shinjiro Koizumi in a tour of the LDP center in Tokyo on Saturday.
The election of the party president was held after the outgoing prime minister Shigeru Ishiba announced the resignation just a year after the task. Ishiba, who was moderate last year, angered the right of his party, said it was time to find a successor to lead a “new LDP”.
64 -year -old Takaichi inherited a party that endured two bruising elections last year because voters punished a financing scandal and the cost of animation.
“Recently, I heard that harsh sounds from all over the country say that we don’t know what LDP represents more,” Takaichi said before the tour. “This sense of urgency continued me. I wanted to turn the worries about people’s daily lives and future.
As expected, Takaichi won the first vote, won 183 out of 589 votes, and Koizumi ranked second with 164 votes. The other three candidates were removed from the competition. The votes of the deputies were given more weight than ranks and file members, theoretically preferred Koizumi, who was said to be more popular among MPs. However, the second was Takaichi who revealed the winner after the decisive vote.
Although the coalition led by the LDP does not have the majority of the seats in Parliament, Takaichi’s deputies are expected to be approved as prime minister when they vote in the middle of the month.
The opposition parties would have to unite behind their candidates to reject the Prime Ministry – a scenario that observers are unthinkable.
His emergency task will be to unite his party after more than a year scandal and bad election results and to regain public support.
It will also have to deal with the concern of the public about migration and mass tourism and try to win young voters returning to populist small parties such as Sanseito in the upper home elections this summer. Takaichi said Japan Reviewing policies that allow people with completely different cultures and history, ”Takaichi said.
It is impossible to reduce the symbolism of the victory of Takaichi in a country with a small number of female politicians and business leaders, and is constantly weak in the comparison of global gender gaps. However, he opposed the policies that many voters believe that they would advance the cause of gender equality, such as allowing women to rule and for married couples to use separate surnames.
The vote on Saturday was defined by analysts as a war for the future of the LDP, which has almost uninterruptedly ruled Japan for the last twenty years. However, the election sovereignty was badly shaken by a long scandal, including dozens of deputies who were found to have a profit of snow, which were not reported to the sale of tickets to the party meetings.
Takaichi, the foreign policy hawk, will face a variable security environment in East Asia, including the rise of a loose anti -Western alliance consisting of China, Russia and North Korea, and the re -drawing of the economic ties under Donald Trump, which will visit Japan towards the end of the month.
Each of the 295 MPs of LDP voted in the first round of the vote on Saturday and voted on an equal number of votes based on the preferences of more than 1 million base members who had already voted.
None of the candidates did not take a general majority in the first round, Takaichi and Koizumi went to the head, each of the 295 deputies of LDP received a vote and the share of membership fell 47 votes for each of Japan.
