Japan’s next PM will face a problem that won’t go away with Shigeru Ishiba’s resignation | Japan

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s resignation announcement – Sunday evening – the definite timing surprised many; However, the countdown to his departure began only weeks after he took office.

A great political power that has won the presidency of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), governing Japan in the most of the last twenty years – Ishiba described it as an instant election to search for public office after a major financing scandal and to silence its rivals about the party.

Gamble was a disaster for Ishiba, who had opened the best job for most of his career, and a red flag for once Impilerated LDP, and then tried to get out of the same “monetary policy ör who returned to disturb this weekend.

LDP and the young coalition partner Komeito lost their majority in the lower house and forced Ishiba, who was already settled, to lead a minority government.

After gathering with rising rising prices for months, the return of a happy Donald Trump and the encouraged North Korea, which was a happy tariff, appeared in the seconds, potentially punishing period.

And so it appeared. It was removed from the majority of LDP for the second time in less than a year – in the upper House elections held in July.

Voters, Ishida’s new government twice the fluttering, the party’s LDP deputies, SLUSH funds, the party meetings with party meetings of the siphon -siphonlu profits to be found to be found to address the financing scandal to address the financing scandal.

Ishiba’s predecessor Fumio Kishida apologized for “inviting suspicion and insecurity” in politics after the scandal in February last year, and promised to stop organizing donation collection parties as prime minister. But there was no harmonious show; After giving the gift certificates paid by his own money, Ishiba had to publish an apology to the newly selected LDP members of the lower house – critics were proof of the culture of monetary prizes in the party.

As the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper, one day before the upper parliamentary survey, an editorial said before, the deputies “underestimated the power of public anger on money in politics.

Ishiba claimed that he had made “significant progress ında in handling the scandal with the abolition of“ policy costs ”that did not need to be revealed, but he and other LDP deputies opposed bans against party branches against company and group donations.

It was not stated that only many of the dozens of politicians and their assistants involved in the scandal were not added to the anger felt only by many voters. Mainichi said, ız There is no sign of self -reflecting about the loss of confidence against politics, ”he said.

And on Sunday, the same scandal, who dropped his predecessor Kishida, suddenly ended Ishiba’s premiere.

But the LDP was here before – and it recovered.

In the mid -1990s, his leader Tomiichi Murayama reached an impossible accommodation with socialists who were founded as prime minister in exchange for participating in a three -party coalition. In 2009, the LDP was sentenced to the second time after a series of scandals who saw the power of opposition for the first time since the war.

In early October, while preparing for leadership election, LDP began to look for a successor with the ability to repeat these resurrection characteristics.

“After watching the expansion of the faulty lines of the party, the party leaders can encourage the unity, to provide public excitement and support and to stabilize the government and to work with one or more opposition party to stabilize the government.

Focusing on turning the party’s reserves, increasing regional tensions may drown the economic and foreign policy debate, although Trump’s concern about the trade war and the cost of the life crisis.

“LDP may be less important as they deal with an existential crisis that could cause the party to enter the opposition for the third time in the history of the party, Har Harris added.

Last autumn, IShiba, LDP’s prime minister for almost a month, after chairing the results of the lower home election, voters acknowledged a “serious decision” on its party – a statement of July after the collapse of the upper house.

However, the fighting fractions of the party-probably the young and media-friendly pioneering pioneer Shinjiro Koizumi’nin united around the rapidly gathering-the hard decision may not yet come.