Ex-Foreign Minister Fumio Kisida Following the voting in the second round, elected the new Chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) ruling in the country and will be the following prime minister. This is reported by TASS with reference to the voting results.
Kisida scored 257 of 427 votes in the second round, which allowed him to win. His opponent is the ex-head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Defense of Japan Tarot Cono – scored 170 votes. Thus, Kisida receives the post of a new Chairman of the LDP and will soon become a new one, 100th in the account of Japan Prime Minister.
The election of the Chairman of the LDP is held in connection with the expiration of the powers of Prime Minister Yoshihide Sugi. He took this post last year due to the sudden resignation of Sinzo Abe. Suga himself refused to participate in the election race. He explained this decision to the desire to devote the rest of his premier fight against coronavirus.
The new chairman of the LDP also stated that he was ready to start his duties immediately. Among the priority tasks, he called economic measures to combat the consequences of coronavirus, solving social problems.
Fumio Kisida was born in 1957 in the family of hereditary politicians. His grandfather and father were deputies of the Japanese parliament from the Liberal Democratic Party. Kisida graduated from the Law Faculty of Prestigious University of Vasae. In 1993, first elected to the key lower chamber of parliament from LDP. In 2007-2008, he was Minister for Okinawa and Northern Territories (so in Japan they call the Southern Kuril Islands). From December 2012 to August 2017 in the office of Sinzo Abe was the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Then he headed the political advice of the LDP. Since then, Kisida has actively promoted himself as a candidate for the post of Chairman of the Party. However, last year, after the care of Abe in resignation, the LDP was headed by Yoshihide Suga. Kisidi in the party has its own fraction in 46 parliamentary deputies.