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The president of the Liberal Democratic Party (自由民主党総裁, Jiyū-Minshutō Sōsai) is the highest position within Japan's Liberal Democratic Party.The current holder of the position is Prime Minister of Japan, Shigeru Ishiba, who was elected to the position on 27 September 2024, following his victory in the party's presidential election.
The Liberal Democratic Party (自由民主党, Jiyū-Minshutō), frequently abbreviated to LDP or Jimintō (自民党), is a major conservative [15] and nationalist [16] political party in Japan. Since its foundation in 1955, the LDP has been in power almost continuously—a period called the 1955 System —except between 1993 and 1994, and ...
Shigeru Ishiba (Japanese: 石破 茂; born 4 February 1957) is a Japanese politician serving as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party since 2024.
Fumio Kishida (Japanese: 岸田 文雄; born 29 July 1957) is a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and president of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) from 2021 to 2024. He has been a member of the House of Representatives in the National Diet since 1993.
The vice president is considered to be a mostly ceremonial role, [2] and has been called by The Japan Times as an effectively being a "pre-retirement job for elder statesmen". [3] The current vice president is former Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide, appointed on 1 October 2024.
The 83-year-old Aso, who is currently vice president of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, entered Trump Tower in Manhattan on Tuesday evening and met with the former U.S. president for ...
Kishida announcing that he will not seek re-election as President of the party, 14 August 2024. On 14 August, Fumio Kishida announced that he would not seek a second term as President of the Liberal Democratic Party. [59] This effectively made the race an "open field" for new candidates. [60]
The election was held one month after Ishiba took office as prime minister, after winning a heated contest in the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) presidential election on 27 September, following the resignation of Fumio Kishida as party leader due to his low approval rating amid the party-wide slush fund corruption scandal.