China News Service, September 1, According to the Japan Broadcasting Association (NHK), on the afternoon of September 1, local time, Shigeru Ishiba, the former secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, held a press conference and officially announced that he would participate in the election of the Liberal Democratic Party's president.
Data map: Shigeru Ishiba, former secretary general of the Japanese Liberal Democratic Party.
Not long before Shigeru Ishiba announced the above news, Fumio Kishida, the head of the political investigation of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, also officially announced his participation in the party president election.
After the resignation of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the Liberal Democratic Party needs to hold a presidential election to select a successor.
The party’s general affairs meeting held a general affairs meeting on the morning of September 1.
The top party leaders believed that the sudden resignation of the prime minister was a situation in the party constitution that “needs an emergency response” and decided not to implement the voting of party members and party friends.
The Japanese National Emergency Telephone Public Opinion Survey conducted by Kyodo News Agency on August 29 and 30 showed that 34.3% of the interviewees believed that the right candidate for the next prime minister was Shigeru Ishiba, the former secretary-general of the Liberal Democratic Party. For Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga (14.3%), the support rate of Defense Minister Taro Kono accounted for 13.6%.
According to previous reports, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga will formally announce his candidacy on September 2.