China News Service, September 15th, a comprehensive report, on the 14th, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga was selected as the new president of the Democratic Party. He will be appointed on the 16th to become the 99th post-war Japanese prime minister and establish a new cabinet.
Yoshihide Suga said that he would "inherit and develop" Abe's policies, including continuing to promote constitutional amendments and overcoming the crisis of the new crown epidemic. At the same time, he also promised to break political conventions.
Data map: Yoshihide Suga, the new president of the Japanese Liberal Democratic Party.
Four important positions in the Liberal Democratic Party will be released
The timing of the early general election is concerned
In the general meeting of members of the two houses on the 14th, Yoshihide Suga received 377 votes, Kishida received 89 votes, and Ishiba received 68 votes. Yoshihide Suga received more than half of the votes in the first ballot.
Japanese media pointed out that it is rare for a non-affiliated and non-hereditary MP who is not part of the party faction to be elected as the president.
Yoshihide Suga announced after his election: "The vertical division of government agencies, vested rights, and bad precedentism will be broken, and restrictions will be relaxed. A cabinet that works for the people will be established."
According to reports, Yoshihide Suga will elect the secretary general and other four important posts in the party on the 15th.
He will attend a meeting with the head of the Komei Party leader Yamaguchi Nazuo and sign an agreement to establish a coalition government.
At present, Yoshihide Suga has basically decided to retain Toshihiro Nikai as Secretary-General and Hiroshi Moriyama, Chairman of the National Assembly's Countermeasures, and to appoint Masaru Sato as the Chairman of General Affairs.
On the afternoon of the 16th local time, Yoshihide Suga will accept the votes of the Liberal Democratic Party and the Komeito in the election of prime ministers in the plenary session of the House of Representatives and Senate, and will be designated as the new prime minister.
After that, the cabinet will be formed, and the new cabinet will be established after the prime minister's appointment ceremony and the cabinet certification ceremony held in the palace.
According to reports, Yoshihide Suga’s term as party president will end at the end of September 2021, when Abe’s remaining term expires, and the term of the House of Representatives will also end in October 2021.
The timing of his decision to dissolve the House of Representatives and hold a general election during his tenure will become the focus of the future.
On the 14th, regarding the time for the dissolution of the House of Representatives in conjunction with the new crown epidemic, Yoshihide Suga said that he would refer to the opinions of experts and said that "it will be difficult if it is not completely close to subsiding."
Data map: On the evening of September 10, local time, Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike held a temporary press conference and said that Tokyo’s new crown epidemic alert level was lowered by 1 from the previous highest "epidemic is expanding" to "must be alert to the epidemic expanding again ".
Photo by China News Agency reporter Lu Shaowei
How to deal with epidemic prevention and economic revitalization?
Will become a new government issue for Yoshihide Suga
The economic and financial issues that Yoshihide Suga faced after forming the new government on the 16th were how to deal with the slowing and stagnant domestic economy caused by the spread of the new crown epidemic.
Japanese media pointed out that Yoshihide Suga will take measures through the implementation of the reserve cost of more than 10 trillion yen included in the two supplementary budgets for 2020 and the preparation of the 2021 budget towards the end of the year.
Whether it is decided in 2020 to prepare the third supplementary budget for 2020 will become the focus.
On the 14th, Yoshihide Suga stated on the preparation fee: "It can be used immediately if necessary", emphasizing that it will be actively used for the current COVID-19 countermeasures.
Regarding the third supplementary budget, he said: "If it is necessary in the future, we will further (study)."
According to reports, after the establishment of the second supplementary budget in June, the Abe government has successively decided to use the reserve fund as an additional part of the "sustainable subsidy" project to support small and medium-sized enterprises and freelancers.
It is planned that the government will decide on September 15 as soon as possible on the operational support measures for medical institutions and related expenditures for the expansion of the testing system.
In order to prepare the 2021 budget, the budgetary estimates and tax reform requirements of the Japanese ministries and agencies will expire at the end of September.
The feature of this budget application is that "critical funds" such as the new crown countermeasures can be requested without an upper limit.
Suga Yoshihide’s emphasis on the promotion of digitalization, employment countermeasures against the epidemic, and additional subsidies, which were emphasized in the presidential election, may be reflected, and the scale of applications will expand.
After the new government is launched, the specific actions to finalize the government budget toward the end of 2020 may accelerate.
Data map: At about 5 pm local time on August 28, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced his resignation as prime minister at a press conference.
The picture shows the scene of the press conference.
Yoshihide Suga denies that faction support has drawbacks
Said it would "initiate a challenge" to the constitutional amendment
On the 14th, Yoshihide Suga denied the overwhelming support of five factions, which would have an impact on the operation of the regime. He emphasized that “the malpractice of factions does not exist at all. I introduced the policy and won a large number of (votes).” Regarding the revision of the Constitution, he stated that it is very important to discuss the four projects that the party summarized at the Constitution Review Conference of the House of Representatives and the House of Representatives, including specifying the existence of the Self-Defense Forces, and to enhance the atmosphere for the national constitution revision. Challenge as the president".
Yoshihide Suga once again emphasized that the establishment of a new "digital hall" that will uniformly promote the government's digitization indicates that "we hope to make preparations as soon as possible to amend the law."
Yoshihide Suga once again stated that he should consider arranging personnel mainly with talents who understand the relaxation of restrictions.
Regarding whether or not to appoint rivals in the presidential election, Fumio Kishida and former secretary Shiba Shige, as well as members of the faction led by the two, Yoshihide Suga said that he wanted to build a party situation and said: "From the moment the presidential election is over , We will unite as one. Every talent will get what it is. There are people in all factions who are willing to reform."
The report pointed out that with regard to the falsification of official documents related to Moriyu Academy, which has been criticized by the Abe administration, Yoshihide Suga only stated: "Objectively abnormalities must be corrected. The important thing is to explain everything to the people in detail."