{"id":8791,"date":"2025-10-14T11:22:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T11:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/could-an-opposition-candidate-become-prime-minister\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T11:22:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T11:22:47","slug":"could-an-opposition-candidate-become-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/could-an-opposition-candidate-become-prime-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Could an opposition candidate become prime minister?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDP) is trying to court the Democratic Party for the People (DPP) and Nippon Ishin no Kai for what could be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to elect a prime minister of their choosing and create their own administration.<\/p>\n<p>But with the parties still far apart when it comes to their key policies and political objectives, it is unclear whether that will succeed.<\/p>\n<p>Komeito&rsquo;s sudden departure from the Liberal Democratic Party-led coalition last week has made it less certain who Japan&rsquo;s next prime minister will be &mdash; LDP President Sanae Takaichi or a candidate fielded by the opposition. It has sparked the kind of political uncertainty not seen in decades.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Could an opposition candidate become prime minister?<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDP) is trying to court the Democratic Party for the People (DPP) and Nippon Ishin no Kai for what could be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to elect a prime minister of their choosing and create their own administration. But with the parties still far apart when it comes to their&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/could-an-opposition-candidate-become-prime-minister\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Could an opposition candidate become prime minister?&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8792,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8791","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\/8791","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=8791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}