worldUpdated: Sep 14, 2020 12:38 ISTYoshihide Suga was elected as the new head of Japan’s ruling party on Monday, virtually guaranteeing him parliamentary election as the country’s next prime minister. Suga received 377 votes in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party election to pick a successor to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who announced last month that he would resign due to health problems. Suga says that he is a reformist and that he has worked to achieve policies by breaking territorial barriers of bureaucracy. Compared to his political skills at home, Suga has hardly travelled overseas, and his diplomatic skills are unknown, though he is largely expected to pursue Abe’s priorities. He also will have to decide what to do with the Tokyo Olympics, which were pushed back to next summer due to the coronavirus.

Source: Hindustan Times September 14, 2020 07:08 UTC