Japan Prime Minister-designate Shigeru Ishiba plans October 27 election

September 30, local time, September 30, Japan's Prime Minister-designate Shigeru Ishiba has set October 27 for the opening of the vote for the election of the House of Representatives of the Diet of Japan. September 27, local time, Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) presidential election voting officially began, and finally Ishiba Shigeru in the second round of voting in the majority of votes, elected the new president of the LDP. He will take over as prime minister on October 1 by the Diet nomination election. The Prime Minister of Japan is nominated by a political party and elected by the members of the House of Representatives and the Senate of the Diet. Generally speaking, the head of a political party that holds a majority of seats in the House of Representatives of the Diet is elected as the Prime Minister.