The new Government of Japan, announced this Monday after being Shigeru Ishiba re-elected as prime minister in a parliamentary vote, has only two women among his 20 ministerswhose average age is 61.15 yearscompared to 63.5 from the previous cabinet.
Ishiba (67 years) began a new mandate in the Asian country this Monday after a vote in the Diet (Parliament) in which has obtained 221 votes in favor of the total of 465 seats that make up the Lower Houseafter which the members of the new Cabinet have been made public, with three changes in their ranks.
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries passes into the hands of Taku Eko (64)Justice now belongs to Keisuke Suzuki (47) and the Territory, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism portfolio is headed by Hiromasa Nakano (46)from the Komeito Buddhist party, a coalition partner of the LDP.
At the internal party level, Seji Kihara (54 years old) takes over from Shinjiro Koizumi as head of electoral strategy, after the second assume responsibility for the results of the general elections, the worst since 2009 and that led to the conservative formation lose the large parliamentary majority that he held, its seats falling from 256 to 191.
The Ministry of Finance continues to be headed by Katsunobu Kato (68)with a long history in the PLD, and the Japanese Foreign Ministry remains in the hands of Takeshi Iwaya (67)former Minister of Defense and former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs.
There are also no changes in another of the key portfolios, that of Defense, commanded by Gen Nakatani (66)veteran in this field.
The new cabinet maintains the number of women at two, Toshiko Abe (65) as Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, and Junko Mihara (60) as head of Childhood.
Abe’s portfolio was created in October with the previous government’s announcement, which served for 42 days and was formed after Ishiba emerged as successor to the former president Fumio Kishida, after winning internal PLD elections in September to which the second did not attend with the intention of renewing the image of the party, stained by a case of irregular financing.
immersed in a leadership crisis and punished by the succession of scandals in which it has been involved in recent years, the PLD starts this Monday a new mandate with a new cabinet thanks to the simple majority it has in coalition with the Komeito Buddhist party.
The coalition led by Ishiba must now rely on other parties to carry out key legislative initiativesand has already entered into negotiations in that direction with other conservative or center-right groups.
However, the advances in representation that groups such as the Popular Democratic Party (PDP) They place the opposition in a stronger situation to attack the Executive or demand that it incorporate its proposalswhich will condition the legislature for the new Government.
Shigeru Ishiba falls asleep during his re-election
Ishiba, He apparently fell asleep during the parliamentary voteaccording to images of the session collected by local media and that have gone viral on the networks.
While Japanese parliamentarians were voting on who would be in charge of administering Japan in the new legislature, Ishiba appears head down and with eyes closed in a video captured by the national television network Nippon Television and that has become a trend on platform X in the Asian country.
Sitting in the chamber next to the Executive spokesperson, Yoshimasa Hayashiand the Minister of Finance, Katsunobu Katothe Japanese prime minister slept waiting for the results.
Popular Japanese actress Tomoko Mariya He has spoken thus in his X account about the images of Ishiba sleeping in the Diet (Parliament): “There should be a no-sleep rule in voting to elect the prime minister.”
“I want him to resign”, “I can’t take it anymore” or “What a shame” There have been other comments by Japanese citizens on the aforementioned social network.
One user has expressed: “It is something unprecedented that the new prime minister, who was elected in the Diet, sleeps so much. If you are not healthy enough to bear a great responsibility, I recommend that you resign to dedicate yourself to treatment.”
Japanese Internet users have also commented the attitude with which Hayashi and Taro Aso, baron of the LDP, appear in the Nippon Television images.
“Aso is with a gesture of disbelief. Why doesn’t Hayashi wake him up?”commented one citizen.
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