Former Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida has won the ruling party leadership election and is set to become the next prime minister. Kishida will replace outgoing party leader and Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, who is stepping down after serving just one year since taking office last September.
As the new leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, Kishida is set to be elected the next prime minister on Monday in parliament, where his party and coalition partner have a parliamentary majority. Let us tell you that today the voting has been done for the new leader of the ruling party.
Two of the four candidates in the race to become Japan's next prime minister were women. Sane Takaichi and Seiko Noda are the first women in the country in the last 13 years, He has staked his claim for the leadership of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in the election for the post of Prime Minister.
