China News Service, September 2 According to Japanese media reports, on September 2 local time, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga held a press conference to formally announce his participation in the Liberal Democratic Party presidential election.
The picture shows the Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga.
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.
On September 1st, Fumio Kishida, chairman of the political investigation of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, and former secretary general Ishibashige announced their participation in the election of the president of the Liberal Democratic Party.
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%.
On September 2nd, the Liberal Democratic Party and the Cadet Party’s Congressional Policy Chairmen reached an agreement and decided to convene an interim Congress from September 16th to 18th, and to hold the election of a new prime minister by name on the 16th.