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For some, this was already the sign of the inauguration: during the days of uncertainty, when Japan wondered who would replace Prime Minister Shinzo Abe – resigned because he was ill, after nearly eight years of record length – your spokesperson Yoshihide Suga replied that I don’t want this task. to anyone who mentions their name. From now on the next prime minister of Japan.
And by acclamation: Suga, 71, then ranks as one of the last candidates in the primaries of the Liberal Democratic Party, which, having a majority in Parliament, expresses the government (the vote of confidence scheduled for Wednesday); and he won them with 377 votes in his favor compared to 89 for the runner-up, Kishida Fumio (a former chancellor who, yes, had been said from the beginning, and recklessly, enthusiastically, for the succession).
With Yoshihide Suga, the party has opted for stability. The government spokesman Suga for eight years, face of the two daily press conferences, therefore, well known by the public, and right arm of former Prime Minister Abe: from him he collects the heavy legacy of reform the constitution in a militaristic sense, to manage the pandemic, to finally bring home the Tokyo Olympics, already postponed until 2021.
Yoshihide Suga has developed his entire career in the Liberal Democratic Party, since then, as a recent graduate, he collaborated in an initial election campaign. Yokohama City Councilor in 1987, Member of Parliament since 1996, in 2015 Junichiro Koizumi appointed him Deputy Minister of Home Affairs. You never belonged to any stream; Her face associated with key moments in recent history, such as the announcement in 2019 of the entrance to the New Era, the Reiwa era, harmony and beauty. It was he who revealed it, from the usual podium of the two daily press conferences: since then he has affectionately renamed Uncle Reiwa.
Also loved because he is oblivious to the magic circle of the political dynasties that rule the country like the Koizumi (the son of the former prime minister now minister), the Abe and the Aso, Yoshihide Suga, son of an Ogachi strawberry farmer, And you could get a law degree by working in a cardboard factory and studying at night classes. Freezing winter in Ogachi, but then the sun comes out, he said in a recent interview. The camps taught me perseverance before I realized what was necessary. Your day begins and ends with 100 sit-ups; loves karate and fishing; at school, says a classmate located by New York Times , it was so quiet that he forgot he was there. And then add: In Japan we have a proverb, the wise hawk hides its claws. Today it seems designed especially for him.
September 14, 2020 (change September 14, 2020 | 15:30)
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