TOKYO – Japan’s parliament on Wednesday elected Yoshihide Suga as minister, replacing leader Shinzo Abe with his right hand.
Suga withdrew several times when the effects were announced, while members of the ruling party applauded in Parliament’s toughest relegation space. It was also shown in the upper space.
Suga, who frontman of the cabinet and government spokesman under Abe, decided on a closet with a combination of new faces and existing and former ministers, a program that suggests a continuation of Abe’s influence while reflecting Suga’s commitment to administrative reforms.
Suga highlighted his delight as the son of a self-taught farmer and politician by promising to serve the interests of other rural people and communities. He said he would continue Abe’s unfinished policies and that his priorities would be to fight the coronavirus and reverse a battered economy. through the pandemic.
“The reaction to coronavirus is the immediate priority,” Suga said, dressed in a formal attire, at his first press convention as prime minister on Wednesday night. “I will continue former Prime Minister Abe’s policies and take them forward to succeed over this. “crisis and repair the safety of the population. “
Suga has been an unconditional supporter since Abe’s first term as minister from 2006 to 2007 and helped him regain his post in 2012.
Abe, 65, announced last month that he would resign due to chronic illness and said Wednesday that as a legislator he would go to Suga’s government.
Suga, 71, praised Abe’s international relations and economic policy when asked what he would like to achieve himself. He pledged to drive Japan’s overdue virtual transformation and appointed a special minister, Takuya Hrai.
Suga also said it would push for reforms through the breaking of bureaucratic barriers and vested interests, but through the reengineering of key positions within the party, Suga has slightly divided the highest positions into key factions, an exercise in balance that is perceived as a return to the leadership race.
Suga said Wednesday that it would deepen the Japan-U. S. alliance further in the national interest, seeking to build “a strong relationship with neighboring countries, adding China and Russia. “
Suga said he appointed “reformist and hard-working people” to the new 20-member cabinet. Eleven members of Abe’s last management were withheld or transferred to ministerial posts.
Abe’s younger brother, Nobuo Kishi, who has close ties to Taiwan, has been appointed Minister of Defense, replacing Taro Kono, who has been transferred to the post of Minister of Administrative Reform. China asserts that Taiwan is its territory and opposes contacts among others. countries and the autonomous island.
China congratulated Suga on his election, while Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said China is willing to cooperate with the new Japanese government to “jointly promote Sino-Japanese relations to achieve new and greater developments. “
But in reaction to Kishi’s appointment, Wang said Beijing expects Japan to “respect the precept of a single China and any form of official industry with Taiwan. “
Finance Minister Taro Aso, Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, Olympic Minister Seiko Hashimoto and Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi, son of former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, were arrested.
Motegi called South Korea an “important neighbor” and said he expected ongoing conflicts over Koreans forced through Japanese corporations to paint during World War II, although he said Seoul’s position violated foreign law. .
Kishi, who in the afterlife said Japan deserves nuclear weapons, said that as a cabinet member he would respect the government’s non-nuclear principle and explore tactics to strengthen missile deterrence, adding the acquisition of a first attack. Capacity.
Hashimoto and Yoko Kamikawa are the only closet ministers who are women. Kamikawa, his last term as Justice Minister in 2018, ordered the execution of thirteen members of the Aum Shinrikyo sect for the 1995 fuel attacks on the Tokyo subway.
Suga has selected Katsunobu Kato, a former fitness minister and finance officer, to succeed him as lead closet secretary.
Compared to his political prowess at home, Suga has hardly traveled abroad, and his diplomatic skills are unknown, he is expected to pursu Abe’s priorities.
It will inherit a series of challenges, adding up relations with China, which continues its declared movements in the disputed East China Sea, and the fate of the Tokyo Olympic Games, which were postponed until next summer due to coronavirus. dating the winner of the U. S. presidential election.
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