Thursday, 02/11/2017 18:06 (GMT+7)
Mr. Shinzo Abe, 63, on November 1st was re-elected as Japanese Prime Minister (PM) by the Lower House of Parliament.
Japanese PM Shinzo Abe (Photo: Reuters)
His re-election comes just days after Mr. Abe's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its junior coalition partner, the Komeito Party, won a decisive victory in a parliamentary election, maintaining its two-thirds majority in the Diet. He is expected to retain his current cabinet ministers.
Abe, as leader of the LDP, has now been re-elected for a third consecutive term since he took office in December 2012.
If he is re-elected as the President of the LDP in 2018 and remains in power until November 2019, Abe will become Japan’s longest-serving PM.
Earlier, PM Abe accepted the resignation of the Cabinet, and after the re-election, Abe is expected to announce the new government without reshuffles./.
Compiled by BTA