Fukuda wins!
Posted by Matt Dioguardi on September 23rd, 2007
Okay, I guess it’s official now. Yasuo Fukuda has beat Taro Aso and is now on his way to becoming the LDP’s next president.
Trans-Pacific Radio has some nice coverage of this here.
Good luck, Mr Fukuda. You will need it.
The moderate veteran politician Yasuo Fukuda easily won election as president of Japan’s struggling ruling party on Sunday, assuring his selection as the new prime minister in a parliamentary vote later this week. Fukuda won 330 votes to former Foreign Minister Taro Aso’s 197 votes, the party announced.