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Tanigaki Group Backs Kishida

JAPAN

Jiji reports that the Tanigaki group within LDP has backed Fumio Kishida in the LDP leadership race but allowed its members to vote for other candidates if they so wish.

  • The Tanigaki group is a minor faction originally led by Sadakazu Tanigaki, who was LDP President before Shinzo Abe and retired from politics in 2016 due to serious injury.
  • Former Defence Minister Gen Nakatani of the Tanigaki group said last week that he would support Kishida would seek to persuade his faction colleagues to follow suit.
  • The group consists of around 20 lawmakers, although some of them belong to other groups as well.

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