Suga elected new head of Japan's LDP

Suga elected new head of Japan's LDP

File photo taken in May 2014 shows Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga (R) posing for a photo with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (2nd from R) and other government officials during a ceremony to mark the formation of the Cabinet Bureau of Personnel Affairs at the Cabinet Office. Suga won the Liberal Democratic Party's presidential election on Sept. 14, 2020, and is set to be appointed as prime minister by parliament two days later.

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