Rightwing Takaichi the victor in Japan’s LDP leadership race

In her third attempt, Sanae Takaichi won the Liberal Democratic Party’s (LDP) leadership in convincing and comfortable fashion in a runoff against Shinjiro Koizumi, winning 185 votes to Koizumi’s 156. One lawmaker apparently abstained. She won by a larger margin than Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru won in 2024, when he bested Takaichi by only 21
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