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Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike has confided to her inner circle that she plans to run for a third term this summer.
A candidate backed by the ruling coalition parties and Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike was elected mayor of Tokyo’s Koto Ward after the former mayor resigned while under investigation for suspected illegal election campaign tactics.
The low support ratings for Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s Cabinet are translating into local election losses by candidates backed by his Liberal Democratic Party.
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party was on edge despite securing an 80-percent success rate in the Diet by-elections on April 23.
Yoshimi Watanabe, the former head of the now-defunct Your Party and a former Cabinet minister, announced on June 21 that he will not run in the upcoming Upper House election and will retire from politics.