The new rules give Japan Shinzo Abe likely to lead to 2021

The new rules give Japan Shinzo Abe likely to lead to 2021

TOKYO: party in the limits on Sunday extended Government of Japan for its leadership, a change that a shot off the longest-serving post-war leader of Japan gives Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.


Abe would have to step down as party leader and prime minister in September next year, although his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) were still in power off.

The LDP Congress approved the extension of three consecutive terms to three years, compared with the previous limit of two consecutive three-year term.

This means that Abe may stand for re-election in the next direction of the vote next year party and if he wins and wins national polls - Elections for the lower house are due by December of next year - to stay in power until September 2021.

Abe, 62, served as prime minister for about a year before stepping down after a historic defeat in the Senate elections in 2007.

E 'became the new prime minister if the LDP returned to power in December 2012 after a three-year period in opposition.

He launched his "abenomics" growth plan - a mix of massive monetary easing, government spending and reducing bureaucracy, but five years on growth remains fragile and inflation well below the target of two percent.

"We get the big goal of ¥ 600 billion ($ 5.3 trillion) of GDP ... maintaining a virtual cycle of growth and redistribution of wealth," he said in a speech at the conference.

The LDP is also adopted a policy of "principle to make a concrete step towards amendments to the constitution."


The party has long sought the postwar constitution, Japan prohibits the use of force except revised in the strict sense of self-defense.

The constitution was imposed by the occupying forces of the United States after World War II and entered into force in 1947.

"The LDP will bring propose specific discussion of amendments to the Constitution. This is the historical role of the LDP, is not it?" Abe said.

Decisions come at the annual meeting as right-leaning LDP's Abe has a large majority in both houses of parliament.

Abe has no powerful rivals struggle within the party to become the next party leader, and the opposition parties in the country are in weak positions.

Under Abe, Japan has succeeded in 2015 a new law that the Self-Defense Forces to go into battle to protect allies in the so-called collective self-defense.




Critics argue that Japan could drag in foreign wars far, although there is no direct threat to the country or the people, some even say that violated the rules of the pacifist constitution.

Abe and his supporters have argued that the rules were necessary to a changing security environment characterized by tackling an increasingly assertive China and an unpredictable North Korea.

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