Japan's ruling party leaders gear up to succeed PM Yoshihide Suga
24 Jan 2025
TOKYO: Japan’s ruling party leaders have geared up to become the successor of Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga after the latter’s abrupt decision to pull out of his party’s presidential election at the end of September, a media report said on Saturday.
On Friday, Suga said that he won’t run in the upcoming Liberal Democratic Party’s (LDP) next election saying that he wants to focus on curbing the coronavirus spread, reported Japan’s NHK World. Suga’s decision meant that he will soon step down as prime minister as his LDP president’s term at the end...
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