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xinhua news agency, beijing, september 23 - as the presidential election of japan's ruling liberal democratic party enters the countdown, a latest opinion poll shows that former ldp secretary-general shigeru ishiba, minister of economic security sanae takaichi, and former environment minister shinjiro koizumi are ranked in the top three in terms of support, with a clear advantage over other candidates.

on september 12, in tokyo, japan, nine candidates for the liberal democratic party presidential election gave speeches at the liberal democratic party headquarters. photo by xinhua news agency reporter yue chenxing

the poll results released by japan's mainichi shimbun and the social research research center on the 22nd showed that 26% of respondents supported ishiba shigeru, 17% supported takaichi sanae, and 14% supported koizumi shinjiro. the support rates of the other six candidates, including foreign minister yoko kamikawa and digital minister taro kono, were all below 5%.

among those who support the ldp, 29% said they hope sanae takaichi will be the new president, 24% chose shigeru ishiba, and 23% supported shinjiro koizumi. recently, polls by several japanese media outlets have shown that the above three people rank high in support rates.

the liberal democratic party presidential election is scheduled to be held on the 27th of this month. the current japanese prime minister and liberal democratic party president fumio kishida has announced that he will not run for the election, which means that after the election, the new president will take over as prime minister.

according to the election rules, each of the 367 ldp members of parliament has one vote, and the votes of local councilors, ordinary party members and "party friends" or registered supporters are converted into 367 votes, totaling 734 votes. the person who gets more than half of the votes will be elected president. if no one gets more than half of the votes in the first round of voting, the top two will enter the second round, which is the runoff round.

japanese media predicts that it is very likely that no one will get more than half of the votes in the first round of elections. who will win in the second round will depend on whether they can gain more support from members of parliament. (zhang jing)