On the morning of the 21st local time, the Japanese government held a cabinet meeting, and Ishiba's cabinet resigned collectively. (General reporter Lin Bohan)
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Japan holds a prime minister's name election today: Elected Japan's 104th prime minister to succeed Shigeru Ishiba (Global Times)
[Global Times Special Correspondent Sun Moqinggui] According to reports from Japan's "Yomiuri Shimbun" and Jiji News Agency, Japan is scheduled to hold an interim parliament on the 21st to conduct a prime minister's nomination election to elect Japan's 104th prime minister to succeed Shigeru Ishiba.
According to reports, on the morning of 21st, Shigeru Ishiba will hold an interim cabinet meeting and resign collectively. The election will be held in the House of Representatives and the Senate in the afternoon, and those who get more than half of the votes in the first round of voting can be elected; If no one gets more than half of the votes, the top two votes will enter the second round of voting, and the one with more votes will win. According to the Japanese Constitution, if there are differences in the election results of the House of Representatives and the Senate, a joint meeting will be held for consultation; If the consultation still fails to reach an agreement, the election results of the House of Representatives will be the final resolution of Congress.
The Japan Broadcasting Association (NHK) website said on the 20th that the ruling party self-government party held talks and signed agreement documents on the establishment of a joint government. The document contained rapid implementation of economic countermeasures, amendments to the constitution, advance structural reforms, and demanded that the two sides jointly promote the reduction of the number of seats in the House of Representatives by about 10%.
According to Japan's official data, in the House of Representatives, the Democratic Party currently has 196 seats out of 465 seats, the Japanese Reform Party has 35 seats; in the Senate, the Democratic Party has 100 seats out of 248 seats, and the Japanese Reform Party has 19 seats.
Japan's opposition Constitutional Democratic Party announced on the 20th that it would vote for Noda Yoshihiko, its leader, in this election. According to Japan's Sankei Shimbun, the party once said that it would not insist on electing Noda in order to promote the unification of opposition candidates, but the alliance between the Liberal Democratic Party and the Japan Reform Association changed the party's strategy. Secretary-General An Zhuchun said: "We hope to continue active consultations with the opposition parties, focusing on uniting centrist forces."
According to the analysis of the Japan Economic News, although the self-government party joined hands with the Japan Reform Society, the two parties did not exceed half the total number of seats in both houses, and even if he was elected prime minister, he would face the difficulties of "a minority ruling", and his follow-up policy could encounter many resistance.