The 67-year-old former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda was elected as the new leader of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) at its provisional congress, Kyodo News Agency reported Sunday. He will lead the party in preparation for the next House of Representatives election.
The LDP is now the largest opposition party, with the second-largest number of seats in the lower house after the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. According to the report, there were four candidates in the LDP primary, namely Yoshihiko Noda, current party leader Kentai Quan, former party leader Yukio Edano, and member of the House of Representatives of Japan Harumi Yoshida.
Yoshihiko Noda was elected as the new leader of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) at its provisional congress Sunday.
In the first round of voting that day, none of the NHK received a majority of the votes, according to NHK. Yoshihiko Noda and Yukio Edano were in the top two places in the tie. In the second round of voting, Noda won the election of the new leader of the LDP.
“There is no doubt that [ we ] will soon have the dissolution of the House of Representatives and the general election, and I will begin to prepare for war today,” Yoshihiko Noda said after his election, according to the report, noda will lead the LDP as it prepares for the next house of Representatives election in a bid for “Regime change”. Whether he can show the ability to govern and build a cooperative relationship between the opposition parties to better lead the party against the LDP will also be a difficult question for him to face.
Yoshihiko Noda, who was born in 1957 in the city of Funabashi in Chiba Prefecture, was a Chiba Prefectural Assembly MP, leader of the UPD party and former finance minister. He succeeded Naoto Kan as Prime Minister from 2011 to 2012, he was defeated by Anbe, a Liberal Democrat, and left office.
Noda’s fiscal and defence policy positions are very strong. As Finance Minister, Noda advocated higher taxes, ordering them to fund reconstruction after the 2011 East Japan earthquake. On the Defence Front, Noda is a representative of the LDP’s “Hawks”, known as Junichir? Koizumi. He emphasized that the“Japan-us Alliance” is the foundation of Japanese foreign policy, advocated to visit the Yasukuni shrine, denied the existence of war criminals, denied the historical crimes of Japanese aggression against China.