Incumbent Sakai Mayor Osami Takeyama defeated a candidate of Osaka Ishin no Kai, a regional party, again in Sunday’s election in the Osaka Prefecture city.
SAKAI, OSAKA PREF. – Incumbent Sakai Mayor Osami Takeyama defeated a candidate of Osaka Ishin no Kai, a regional party, again in Sunday’s election in the Osaka Prefecture city.
Independent candidate Takeyama, 67, won a third four-year term, supported by the Liberal Democratic Party, the Democratic Party and the Party for Japanese Kokoro.
He beat Osaka Ishin’s Hideki Nagafuji, a 41-year-old former Osaka Prefectural Assembly member, by highlighting his opposition to the regional party’s so-called Osaka metropolis initiative to realign the prefectural and ordinance-designated city governments.
“Sakai will not join the initiative. It was confirmed again in this battle,” Takeyama said.
