File footage of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party leadership contender Fumio Kishida

Record ID: 1638876

  • Title: File footage of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party leadership contender Fumio Kishida
  • Date: 26th September 2021
  • Summary: Kishida met with then-European Commissioner for Trade, Cecilia Malmstrom in June 2017, with an aim to finalise agreements for the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA). TOKYO, JAPAN (FILE - JUNE 30, 2017) (REUTERS) ***WARNING: CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** KISHIDA AND THEN EUROPEAN COMMISSIONER FOR TRADE CECILIA MALMSTROM WALKING INTO THE MEETING ROOM KISHIDA AND MALMSTROM SHAKING HANDS
  • Embargoed: 10th October 2021 07:30
  • Keywords: Fumio Kishida Shinzo Abe foreign minister politics prime minister
  • Location: TOKYO, JAPAN
  • City: TOKYO, JAPAN
  • Country: Japan
  • Topics: Asia / Pacific,Government/Politics,Elections/Voting
  • Reuters ID: LVA003EWHU4P3
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: EDITORS NOTE: PROFILES OF ALL FOUR CANDIDATES:
    1033-JAPAN-POLITICS/KISHIDA-PROFILE
    1034-JAPAN-POLITICS/TAKAICHI-PROFILE
    1035-JAPAN-POLITICS/KONO-PROFILE
    1036-JAPAN-POLITICS/NODA-PROFILE
    Japan's former Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida is one of four key contenders in the leadership race for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), as Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga prepares to step down.
    Japan's ruling party leadership election is scheduled on Wednesday (September 29), and the winner is certain of being prime minister because of the LDP's majority in parliament's lower house.
    Kishida, who was also the former policy chief of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, explained his key economic policy views in a news conference, saying that an economic stimulus package worth "tens of trillions of yen" was needed to combat the coronavirus pandemic.
    He also said the stimulus package must be compiled "swiftly" and include cash payments to non-permanent workers.
    The low-key Kishida, 64, has ranked poorly in surveys of voters' preferred next premier, but the head of an LDP faction is now viewed as a promising rallying point for lawmakers seeking a new leader ahead of the lower house election.
    He also ran in the leadership race last September but lost to Suga.
    (Production: Akiko Okamoto, Joseph Campbell)
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