{"id":3141,"date":"2025-07-21T08:50:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T08:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/ishiba-clings-to-leadership-after-election-setback\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T08:50:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T08:50:38","slug":"ishiba-clings-to-leadership-after-election-setback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/ishiba-clings-to-leadership-after-election-setback\/","title":{"rendered":"Ishiba clings to leadership after election setback"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&ldquo;Responsibility&rdquo; has been the theme of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba&rsquo;s 17 days on the campaign trail. Now, after an election where his ruling Liberal Democratic Party-Komeito coalition <u>lost its majority in the Upper House<\/u> by a thin margin, it has become an ostensible reason for him to cling to his leadership &mdash; at least, for the moment.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;As the first party in parliament, we have to fulfill our responsibility with the public so as to prevent politics from stagnating or drifting away,&rdquo; Ishiba told a news conference he held as LDP leader Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Citing ongoing negotiations with the United States over the 25% &ldquo;reciprocal&rdquo; tariffs imposed by the administration of President Donald Trump and the complex economic and security outlook, Ishiba told reporters he has no intention of stepping down.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Ishiba clings to leadership after election setback<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;Responsibility&rdquo; has been the theme of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba&rsquo;s 17 days on the campaign trail. Now, after an election where his ruling Liberal Democratic Party-Komeito coalition lost its majority in the Upper House by a thin margin, it has become an ostensible reason for him to cling to his leadership &mdash; at least, for&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/ishiba-clings-to-leadership-after-election-setback\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Ishiba clings to leadership after election setback&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}