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Takaichi launches bid for LDP election
    2021-09-09  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

JAPAN’S former communications minister, Sanae Takaichi, yesterday formally declared her bid for the presidential election of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).

The election of the LDP is expected to be held Sept. 29, considered to decide the next prime minister effectively.

The race will be a three-way contest between Takaichi, former Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and vaccine chief Taro Kono, as Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced last week his intention to resign.

Takaichi is believed to have received the prerequisite support from 20 lawmakers with the help of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, under whom she served as the minister of communications and LDP policy chief.

Kishida has declared his bid for the election in late August. He announced his economic policies and vowed to boost people’s income and narrow disparities.

Kono is expected to formally announce his bid later this week.

If Takaichi, 60, manages to overcome long odds, she would become Japan’s first female leader.

Takaichi launched her challenge on policies to strengthen security and help boost the COVID-battered economy.

She became the first female internal affairs minister in the second Abe administration in 2014. But Takaichi has ranked poorly in popularity ratings.

Whoever wins the Sept. 29 vote of grassroots LDP members and party lawmakers will lead the party in the lower house election that must be held by Nov. 28, making public appeal an important factor in choosing Suga’s successor. (SD-Xinhua)

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