Fukuda Expected to Be New Prime Minister
September 23, 2007
JAPAN
Yasuo Fukuda is expected to become Japan’s new Prime Minister after the ruling Liberal Democratic Party endorses him as its new leader today. He is predicted to get the support of two-thirds of the party’s MPs in a parliamentary vote on Tuesday. He will replace Shintaro Abe, who quit after a disastrous year in office. Mr Fukuda, 71, the son of a prime minister who served in the 1970s, was Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary from 2000-2004.
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