Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Sunday he had decided to resign to make way for a new leader, setting up an emergency presidential race within the fractured Liberal Democratic party.
Ishiba’s decision, which comes less than a year since he assumed the premiership, pre-empted a vote within the LDP on Monday, at which a majority of LDP parliamentarians were expected to demand a leadership election and force Ishiba out of office.
The resignation, he said, was aimed at heading off “a decisive split” in the party that had ruled Japan for most of the past 70 years, but whose grip on power had weakened significantly on Ishiba’s watch.
您已閱讀16%（647字），剩余84%（3327字）包含更多重要信息，訂閱以繼續探索完整內容，并享受更多專屬服務。