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Official campaigning starts to choose new Japanese leader

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-09-10 23:42

Campaigning will be carried out in the coming two weeks all over Japan, with the five candidates giving public speeches on the street and appearing in a series of public activities for votes.

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They are to compete for the simple majority of a total of 528 ballots, 387 from the party's Diet members and 141 from prefectural representatives. A second round will be held between the top two if none succeed in the first round.

The winner of the election will undoubtedly replace Fukuda as prime minister at the extraordinary Diet session on September 24 since the ruling coalition controls the majority in the more powerful Lower House of the Diet.

The LDP presidential race left the simultaneous presidential election of the major opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) lackluster since DPJ incumbent party chief Ichiro Ozawa had been announced the only candidate.

Analysts said campaigning activities involving the five LDP candidates around Japan will help boost the party's popularity and lift the next party president and prime minister's support rate.

 

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