{"id":326453,"date":"2020-09-16T06:16:46","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T06:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=326453"},"modified":"2020-09-16T06:16:49","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T06:16:49","slug":"yoshihide-suga-elected-as-japans-new-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/yoshihide-suga-elected-as-japans-new-prime-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoshihide Suga elected as Japan&#8217;s new 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-elected-as-japans-new-prime-minister\/suga1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-326454\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-326454 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/suga1-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"573\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/suga1-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/suga1-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/suga1-696x494.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/suga1-592x420.jpg 592w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/suga1.jpg 740w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 573px) 100vw, 573px\" \/><\/a>Japan\u2019s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leader Yoshihide Suga was elected Prime minister of Japan in a parliamentary vote held on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Yoshihide became the country&#8217;s first new premier in nearly eight years. Suga won a poll for Prime minister receiving 314 out of 462 votes in Japan&#8217;s lower house.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Following the vote, Suga is due to enter the Prime Minister\u2019s Office as the new leader and will name his cabinet later in the day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Earlier in the day, Shinzo Abe\u00a0held his final cabinet meeting and told reporters he was proud of his achievements during his nearly eight years in power. Later,\u00a0the Abe Cabinet resigned en masse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Yoshihide Suga was on Monday became the new head of LDP after securing 377 votes in the election held to pick a successor to Shinzo Abe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Suga, who was the chief Cabinet secretary in Shinzo Abe\u2019s 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\u2019s 377 votes.<\/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>Japan\u2019s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leader Yoshihide Suga was elected Prime minister of Japan in a parliamentary vote held on Wednesday. Yoshihide became the country&#8217;s first new premier in nearly eight years. Suga won a poll for Prime minister receiving 314 out of 462 votes in Japan&#8217;s lower house. Following the vote, Suga is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":326454,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[2507,5162,13427],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326453"}],"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=326453"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326456,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326453\/revisions\/326456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/326454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}