Japan’s prime minister, Shigeru ishiba, has announced his resignation this Sunday At a press conference. The news, advanced by the public chain NHKearly in the day (17:00 local time) has its origin in the last electoral results, disappointing for its training, The Democratic Liberal Party (PLD), and that made it lose control of the National Parliament.
The loss of the parliamentary majority in the Partial elections to the upper dietary house (National Parliament) in July caused strong internal criticisms that urged Ishiba To step aside. Finally, the hitherto prime minister of the Japanese country has decided to resign, as he pointed out, to avoid an internal division within the party.
This resignation takes place only one day before the deadline for the PLD leader to make a decision regarding the call for internal primary elections to the presidency of his party. It should be noted that in Japan, the position of prime minister is occupied by the leader of the most voted party in the general elections, Therefore, when changing the president of said formation, there is also a change of head of state.
Ishiba, who was in charge of the Government Since last October, He has not supported the pressure after an electoral batacazo that resulted in a minority government, something very unusual in Japan in post -war.
This unleashed serious criticism against his figure as the leader of the formation. More if possible when of the two priorities of his mandate: the fight against inflation and the reform of his party internally, he has not been able to fulfill the latter, since several important members of the PLD They have been involved in a scandal of irregularities in the collection of public funds.
All this has not left another exit to Ihiba, which faced this weekend as the last one before making a final decision, than From now on it will lead to an advance of PLD primaries.
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