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china news service, september 27 (xinhua) according to comprehensive japanese media reports, japan's liberal democratic party presidential election will be held on the afternoon of the 27th local time. several senior liberal democratic party officials revealed that former japanese prime minister taro aso has decided to support one of the candidates, minister of economic security. takaichi sanae.

according to the plan, the first round of voting in the liberal democratic party presidential election will focus on 368 "member votes" and 368 "party member votes". if no candidate obtains more than half of the votes, it will enter a contest between the top two candidates. runoff voting.

the japan broadcasting association (nhk) reported that judging from the current election situation, it is almost certain that the election will enter the second round of runoff voting.

according to japan's "sankei shimbun" report, taro aso, who still has considerable say in the liberal democratic party, had previously stated that he would support digital minister taro kono, who also belongs to the aso faction. however, many senior officials in the liberal democratic party said that aso has decided to take the first place. in the first round of voting, he changed his support to takaichi sanae, and has informed japanese prime minister fumio kishida and others of this intention.

the report pointed out that judging from the current election situation, in addition to takaichi sanae, former liberal democratic party secretary-general shigeru ishiba and former environment minister koizumi shinjiro are also strong contenders in this presidential election. however, aso had requested that they shigeru ishiba, who resigned, and shinjiro koizumi, who was close to former prime minister yoshihide suga, found it difficult to support him.