{"id":326390,"date":"2020-09-14T08:08:50","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T08:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=326390"},"modified":"2020-09-14T08:08:52","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T08:08:52","slug":"yoshihide-suga-wins-ruling-party-election-set-to-succeed-shinzo-abe-as-japans-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/yoshihide-suga-wins-ruling-party-election-set-to-succeed-shinzo-abe-as-japans-prime-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoshihide Suga wins ruling party election, set to succeed Shinzo Abe as Japan&#8217;s prime minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/yoshihide-suga-wins-ruling-party-election-set-to-succeed-shinzo-abe-as-japans-prime-minister\/yoshihide-suga\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-326391\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-326391 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Yoshihide-Suga-300x246.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"538\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/Yoshihide-Suga-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/Yoshihide-Suga-768x631.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/Yoshihide-Suga-696x572.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/Yoshihide-Suga-511x420.jpg 511w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/Yoshihide-Suga.jpg 957w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/><\/a>Yoshihide Suga on Monday became the new head of Japan&#8217;s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) after securing 377 votes in the election held to pick a successor to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Suga, currently the chief Cabinet secretary in Shinzo Abe&#8217;s government won with a clear majority over former Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and former Defence Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who got 89 votes and 68 votes against Suga&#8217;s 377 votes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Now that the LDP has chosen its new leader, there will be another vote on Wednesday in parliament, where he is almost certain to be made prime minister because of the LDP&#8217;s majority.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The development comes after PM Abe announced last month that he would resign due to health problems.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yoshihide Suga on Monday became the new head of Japan&#8217;s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) after securing 377 votes in the election held to pick a successor to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Suga, currently the chief Cabinet secretary in Shinzo Abe&#8217;s government won with a clear majority over former Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and former [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":326391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[2507,13427],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326390"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326390"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326393,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326390\/revisions\/326393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/326391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}