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Yoshihide Suga set to become Japan's new Prime Minister (Original Post) Cosmo Blues Sep 2020 OP
Suga promises continuity when Japan craves change Klaralven Sep 2020 #1
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Klaralven

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1. Suga promises continuity when Japan craves change
Wed Sep 16, 2020, 11:19 AM
Sep 2020

In the culmination of a leadership shift that has yielded neither surprise nor drama, ex-Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga was signed, stamped and sealed as Japan’s new prime minister after a vote in both houses of the Diet on Wednesday.

With Suga’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) firmly in parliamentary control, the victory was emphatic. He won 314 votes in the 465-member House of Representatives and 142 votes in the 245-member House of Councillors.

After that, all that remained was ceremonial and Suga was subsequently granted the imperial seal of approval by Emperor Naruhito. Earlier, Suga had been elected the leader of the ruling LDP by a landslide in a plebiscite that was restricted to party elite on September 14.

https://asiatimes.com/2020/09/suga-promises-continuity-when-japan-craves-change/

Japan continues what is effectively a single-party democracy.

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