In her third attempt, Sanae Takaichi won the Liberal Democratic Party’s (LDP) leadership in convincing and comfortable fashion in a runoff against Shinjiro Koizumi, winning 185 votes to Koizumi’s 156. One lawmaker apparently abstained. She won by a larger margin than Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru won in 2024, when he bested Takaichi by only 21 […]
