The Yoshihide Suga Cabinet was inaugurated. There are a total of 20 ministers who support the prime minister. The number has increased by one due to the establishment of the Expo Minister.
The 202nd extraordinary Diet session will be convened on the 16th, and the Liberal Democratic Party's governor, Yoshihide Suga (71), will be elected as the 99th prime minister in the afternoon plenary session of both houses of the Diet.
On the 15th, the new president of the Liberal Democratic Party, Yoshihide Suga, decided to appoint the new Chief Cabinet Secretary, Katsunobu Kato, Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare.
Regarding the local votes of the LDP presidential election to decide the successor to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, it has been revealed that the LDP Hiroshima Prefectural Federation will cast all three votes to Fumio Kishida.
The LDP presidential election following the announcement of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's resignation will be voted on the same day at a general meeting of both Houses of Representatives held at a hotel in Tokyo on the afternoon of the 14th.
The LDP presidential election was dominated by Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, who was supported by five of the seven factions within the party.
Political advertising agency "POTETO Media" that encourages youths to participate in politics, the political platform "PoliPoli", and media "NO YOUTH NO JAPAN" that disseminates politics and society will effectively decide the next prime minister.
Although the election of the Liberal Democratic Party has just started, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga has already obtained the majority of the Diet members' votes.
Former Secretary-General Shigeru Ishiba, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihito Suga, and Fumio Kishida, President of the LDP presidential election, attended an open speech and joint press conference on the 8th.
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