(ANSA) – TOKYO, NOV 10 – The Japanese Parliament, meeting in an extraordinary session, has ratified the appointment of the Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, as required by the Constitution, following the electoral result of 31 October. At the end of the three-day session, Kishida presented the new team of ministers that provides for the assignment of the delegation to the Foreign Ministry to Yoshimasa Hayashi, replacing Toshimitsu Motegi, head of Japanese diplomacy since 2019 and now General Secretary of the Liberal Party -Democrat (Ldp).
Hayashi, 60 and former Minister of Education and Tax Reforms, is known as a moderate who has an open position towards China and considerable experience in various sectors: from finance, to agriculture, to defense. Belonging to a family of politicians, as in the Japanese tradition, his father was Minister of Economy, the new head of diplomacy studied law at the University of Tokyo, and then specialized at Harvard, in the United States, before being elected in the Chamber of Deputies in 1995.
Considered by the Japanese media as a potential candidate for prime minister, Hayashi is a great music lover, and plays guitar and pianola in a group made up mainly of parliamentarians.
Another appointment decided today concerns that of former Defense Minister Gen Nakatani, in the new role of adviser on human rights.
In the elections at the end of October, Kishida’s conservative party won 261 seats, 15 fewer than the previous ballot but still a number sufficient to retain the majority of the 465 seats in the lower house, the most influential of the Diet halls.
At the end of the extraordinary session, the LDP will have to approve an additional budget for the current fiscal year which includes stimulus measures worth 30,000 billion yen (230 billion euros) to alleviate the impact of the coronavirus on economic activities. (HANDLE).
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