{"id":147975,"date":"2025-10-07T18:40:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T13:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/?p=147975"},"modified":"2025-10-07T18:40:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T13:40:36","slug":"takaichi-elected-leader-of-japans-ruling-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/?p=147975","title":{"rendered":"Takaichi elected leader of Japan&#8217;s ruling party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Japanese Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaichi was elected leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on Saturday following a runoff election against Agriculture Minister Shinjiro Koizumi.<\/p>\n<p>She will replace current party leader Shigeru Ishiba, who resigned in September, and is almost certain to become Japan&#8217;s next prime minister, as the LDP remains the largest faction in the Diet.<\/p>\n<p>In the first round, 295 LDP lawmakers and 295 ordinary members voted. Takaichi garnered 183 votes and advanced to the runoff alongside Koizumi, who received 164 votes.<\/p>\n<p>In the runoff, 295 members of the Diet and 47 ordinary party members, each representing a Japanese prefecture, voted. Takaichi garnered 185 votes, defeating Koizumi, who received 156 votes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Japanese Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaichi was elected leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on Saturday following a runoff election against Agriculture Minister Shinjiro Koizumi. She will replace current party leader Shigeru Ishiba, who resigned in September, and is almost certain to become Japan&#8217;s next prime minister, as the LDP remains the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":147976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10916],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147977,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147975\/revisions\/147977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/147976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}