{"id":8385,"date":"2025-10-04T18:03:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T18:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/takaichi-poised-to-become-japans-first-female-pm-after-winning-ldp-poll\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T18:03:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T18:03:41","slug":"takaichi-poised-to-become-japans-first-female-pm-after-winning-ldp-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/takaichi-poised-to-become-japans-first-female-pm-after-winning-ldp-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Takaichi poised to become Japan&#8217;s first female PM after winning LDP poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Former economic security minister Sanae Takaichi on Saturday was elected the first female president of the Liberal Democratic Party &mdash; and is almost sure to become the country&rsquo;s first female prime minister &mdash; after defeating farm minister Shinjiro Koizumi in a runoff.<\/p>\n<p>Takaichi earned 185 votes against Koizumi&rsquo;s 156 in a runoff after none of the five candidates in the party leadership race secured a majority in the first round of voting.<\/p>\n<p>Takaichi gained 149 lawmaker votes and 36 LDP chapter votes, topping Koizumi&rsquo;s 145 votes from lawmakers and 11 from the prefectural chapters. It was her third bid for the party leadership.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub><\/sub><\/p>\n<div>Takaichi poised to become Japan&rsquo;s first female PM after winning LDP poll<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former economic security minister Sanae Takaichi on Saturday was elected the first female president of the Liberal Democratic Party &mdash; and is almost sure to become the country&rsquo;s first female prime minister &mdash; after defeating farm minister Shinjiro Koizumi in a runoff. Takaichi earned 185 votes against Koizumi&rsquo;s 156 in a runoff after none of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/takaichi-poised-to-become-japans-first-female-pm-after-winning-ldp-poll\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Takaichi poised to become Japan&#8217;s first female PM after winning LDP poll&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8386,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8385","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\/8385","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=8385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}