Each of the five candidates for the presidency of the Liberal Democratic Party — and presumptive next prime minister — is reaching out to the larger conservative parties, Nippon Ishin no Kai and the Democratic Party for the People, to garner their support.
That’s because after two disastrous national elections under Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, the new LDP leader will require one or more of the opposition parties to back their election as prime minister and support the incoming administration’s legislative policies.
It feels like one of the speed dating events that used to be on Japanese television years ago, where the candidates court prospective partners one after the other. But with a twist.
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