Resignation of Shinzo Abe: "There should be good continuity of power"

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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at a press conference devoted to the coronavirus epidemic, March 14, 2020. REUTERS / Issei Kato

By: Clémentine Pawlotsky

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, caught up with his former chronic intestinal disease, announced on Friday that he would resign, which would end the longest term at the head of the world's third largest economy. The decryption of Guibourg Delamotte, researcher specializing in Japan and lecturer in political science at the National Institute of Oriental Languages ​​and Civilizations (Inalco).

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