Newly elected Liberal Democratic Party President Sanae Takaichi announced her party leadership lineup Tuesday, entrusting members of a faction led by former Prime Minister Taro Aso with key positions, while excluding her election rival farm minister Shinjiro Koizumi and his allies close to former Prime Ministers Yoshihide Suga, Fumio Kishida and Shigeru Ishiba.
Takaichi replaced Suga with the 85-year-old Aso as the party's vice president, the position he held under former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.
Takaichi named the party’s former general council affairs chair Shunichi Suzuki as secretary-general, the party's No. 2. The eldest son of former Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki and Aso’s brother-in-law, the 72-year-old Suzuki will be in charge of the LDP’s overall operations.
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