Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga acknowledges as he is elected as new head of Japan's ruling party at the Liberal Democratic Party's (LDP) leadership election Monday (Sept 14, 2020), in Tokyo. The ruling LDP chooses its new leader in an internal vote to pick a successor to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who announced his intention to resign last month due to illness. - AP
TOKYO, Sept 14 (AFP) : Japan's ruling party on Monday elected chief cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga as its new leader, making him all but certain to replace Shinzo Abe as the country's next prime minister.
Suga easily won the vote, taking 377 of a total of 534 votes from Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers and regional representatives, against two rivals.
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