TOKYO (Sputnik) — Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party decided at a Wednesday session to hold a leadership election on September 14, following the resignation of the…
According to the Kyodo news agency, the party has departed from a traditional voting process, choosing to allow only 394 lawmakers and 141 party delegates to vote out of about 1.08 million party members across the country, justifying it by the need to select the new leader as soon as possible and mitigate the consequences of Abe’s resignation.
