Polls show Shigeru Ishiba, Shinji Koizumi and Sanae Takaichi are best placed to replace PM Fumio Kishida later this month
A composite image of Sanae Takaichi, Shinjiro Koizumi and Shigeru Ishiba, three prominent contenders in the race to become the leader of the ruling LDP party, and Japan’s next prime minister. A composite image of Sanae Takaichi, Shinjiro Koizumi and Shigeru Ishiba, three prominent contenders in the race to become the leader of the ruling LDP party, and Japan’s next prime minister.
On Monday, a poll by the Kyodo news agency showed that 63-year-old Takaichi – who played drums in a rock band as a teenager – was viewed by 27.7% of LDP supporters as most suitable to be Japan’s next prime minister, although doubts remain over her ability to garner votes among her lawmaker colleagues.
An earlier poll by Nikkei financial newspaper and broadcaster TV Tokyo put support for Ishiba at 26%, followed by the 43-year-old Koizumi at 20%, with Takaichi, at 16%. Koizumi, a keen surfer who graduated with a Master’s degree in political science from Columbia University, can offer “a nebulous promise of generational change and modernisation of the ruling LDP,” said James Brady, vice-president of the political risk advisory firm Teneo.
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