China News Service, June 12 (Xinhua) reported that at 6 p.m. local time on the 12th, the Tokyo Governor of Japan, Yuriko Koike, held a temporary press conference and said that he will seek re-election and run for the Tokyo Governor who will appear on July 5. election.
Data map: Yuriko Koike, Governor of Tokyo, Japan.
According to reports, the current Tokyo governor election will be announced on June 18 and will be voted on July 5 for a four-year term.
Japanese media said that with their performance in responding to the new crown epidemic, Yuriko Koike's support rate has steadily increased since March, and by June its support rate was as high as 69.7%. On the 11th, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government lifted the "Tokyo Alert" and announced that it would enter the third phase of relaxing the "call to suspend business". The following day, Yuriko Koike announced his participation in the election of the governor of Tokyo and said that he would not accept the recommendation of political parties.
In addition, Yuriko Koike also said that the slogan she proposed in the last election was "Tokyo Grand Reform". Since she is fighting for re-election this time, she proposed the "Tokyo Grand Reform 2.0" version of political opinions.
Reported that Yuriko Koike was born in Ashiya City, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan in 1952. He was first elected to the Senate in 1992 and officially entered the political arena; Koike was appointed Minister of Defense in 2007 and was the first female Defense Minister of the Japanese government. Resigned because of the leak of confidential information. In 2016, without any political party recommendation, she won an overwhelming victory with about 2.91 million votes, becoming the first female governor in Tokyo and the seventh female governor in Japan.