Aso Taro is the new president of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). As expected, he won in a landslide, receiving roughly two-thirds of all votes (351 of 527 votes).He received 217 of 386 parliamentary votes to 64 for Yosano Kaoru, 46 for Koike Yuriko, 36 for Ishihara Nobuteru, and 21 for Ishiba Shigeru.After rejecting him …
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The prefectural vote
Yomiuri reports that Aso Taro's final tally in the prefectural voting was 134 out of 141 votes.Ishiba Shigeru received four, Yosano Kaoru received two, Ishihara Nobuteru received one, and Koike Yuriko received zero.Yomiuri has declared Mr. Aso the next LDP president, although the results of the vote among parliamentary members has not been announced yet.
Aso’s big weekend
The LDP's parliamentarians are gathering to vote for the next party president at this very moment, but the outcome is all but assured.Thirty of forty-seven LDP prefectural chapters voted over the weekend, and those thirty gave all but six of their ninety votes to Mr. Aso.Koike Yuriko received zero votes. Ishiba Shigeru received all three …
Tobias S. Harris 