Results for the run-off contest are due at around 3.30pm (2.30pm Singapore time)
TOKYO – The fight to replace Mr Fumio Kishida as leader of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party , and hence Prime Minister, is down to the wire with two finalists: former defence minister Shigeru Ishiba, 67 and economic security minister Sanae Takaichi, 63.
The party election rules for the first round are such that the LDP’s 368 lawmakers each cast a vote, with the other half proportionally allocated among 1.1 million rank-and-file members across 47 prefectural chapters. First came revelations of the LDP’s cosy ties with the controversial Unification Church that has been branded as a cult in some countries, then a massive slush fund scandal that implicated nearly one in five LDP lawmakers.
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