According to NHK, Shigeru Ishiba has made this decision in order to avoid a split within his Liberal Democratic Party
TOKYO – Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has announced a decision to resign from his post, Japan’s public broadcaster NHK reported on Sunday.
According to NHK, Ishiba has made this decision in order to avoid a split within his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).
Survey results all incumbent LDP deputies and representatives of regional party organizations on the issue of staging early elections of the party chairman are slated to be revealed on Monday.
Ishiba-led LDP failed at the summer parliamentary elections in July and did not secure the majority in both houses of the parliament. It led to numerous calls within Ishiba’s party for him to resign from the post of the country’s prime minister.
BY: The Times Union
