Tokyo: Former Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida is set to become the next Prime Minister of Japan. His ruling party, the Liberal Democratic Party, has won the election. 64-year-old Kishida will replace PM Yoshihide Suga, who is already in this position. He is leaving the post of Prime Minister within a year. Let us tell you that today the voting has been done for the new leader of the ruling party. His party and coalition partner have a parliamentary majority.
Two of the four candidates in the race to become Japan’s next prime minister were also women. Sane Takaichi and Seiko Noda are the first women in the country in the past 13 years to stake their claim to lead the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in a prime ministerial election.
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