Japan’s CRA Elects Junya Ogawa as Its New Leader
The leadership change comes ahead of a special parliamentary session next week to select the country’s prime minister, following a landslide victory for the ruling coalition led by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.
Ogawa previously served as secretary general of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDPJ). The CRA itself was established in January, uniting members of the CDPJ and Komeito from the lower house, just weeks before the snap general elections.
In the elections, the CRA lost more than half of the 167 seats it had held, prompting co-leaders Yoshihiko Noda, former head of the CDPJ, and Tetsuo Saito, former Komeito leader, to resign and take responsibility for the party’s setbacks.
Ogawa will serve as party leader through the end of March next year. Meanwhile, Takaichi’s Liberal Democratic Party achieved a two-thirds majority in the 465-member parliament.
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