A senior Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker indicated Saturday the governing party could field a non-Diet member for Tokyo’s gubernatorial election in February.
“The academic, journalism and other circles must have” a strong candidate to run for the governorship, Katsuei Hirasawa, a member of the House of Representatives who serves as general affairs chief of the LDP’s Tokyo branch, told a television program, without citing specific names.
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