Conservative Sanae Takaichi was elected on Saturday (4) as the new leader of the Japan Liberal Democratic Government Party. With this, she must become the first woman to hold the position of a prime minister in the country’s history.
If confirmed by Parliament in the coming days, 64 -year -old Takaichi will face both political and economic challenges: the country suffers from economic stagnation, frozen wages and growing inflation. In addition, the increase in the price of rice and the troubled ratio with the US – which imposed 25% rates on Japanese products – promise a major challenge to the new leadership.
Even part of the current government, the conservative, known as “Japanese Margaret Thatcher” will have a great challenge to rebuild the image of the Liberal Democratic Party (PLD). The subtitle, which has dominated Japanese politics since the end of World War II, has seen its leader, Shigero Ishiba, resign after just over a year, pressured by internal disputes and the fall of popular support, especially among young people.
Within the PLD, Sanae Takaichi is positioned in the most conservative wing of the party. According to her, “the reason why PLD support imploded is because the party lost contact with its right -wing DNA.”
Takaichi will also have to resolve another party’s internal crisis, which in the July election to the Board of Counselors, equivalent to the Senate in the Japanese parliament, has ceased to have a majority at the house; I no longer had in the House of Representatives.
The impasse led Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who had reached the post in October 2024 to resign. Crossed by internal disputes, allegations of corruption and the economic crisis in the country, the LDP sees other parties, such as novice Sanseito, gain space in the Japanese right field.
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