Takaichi allt närmare att bli Japans premiärminister
Japan har med största sannolikhet en ny regering. Det står klart efter att högerpartiet Nippon Ishin och styrande Liberaldemokratiska partiet (LDP) undertecknat ett avtal om att bilda koalition.
Överenskommelsen innebär att Japan ser ut att få sin första kvinnliga premiärminister i LDP-ledaren Sanae Takaichi.
LDP och Ishin är två mandat från att kunna bilda en majoritetsregering, vilket innebär att de behöver stöd från andra partier. Det japanska underhuset ska rösta om premiärminister i morgon, tisdag.
Tokyobörsen steg 3,4 procent på måndagen och stängde på nytt rekord efter nyheter om att en ny regering var nära.
Regeringskrisen i Japan – detta har hänt
- Japans premiärminister Shigeru Ishiba avgick i början av september 2025 efter att Liberaldemokratiska partiet förlorat majoriteten i båda parlamentets kammare.
- Sanae Takaichi valdes till ny partiledare för LDP den 4 oktober 2025 och blev därmed den första kvinnan på posten.
- LDP och högerpartiet Nippon Ishin kom överens om att bilda en koalitionsregering, vilket banade väg för Takaichi att bli Japans första kvinnliga premiärminister.
- Takaichi har profilerat sig som konservativ nationalist och kritiker av centralbankens räntehöjningar, och har jämförts med Margaret Thatcher i japanska medier.
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Sanae Takaichi
Wikipedia (en)
Sanae Takaichi (born 7 March 1961) is a Japanese politician who has served as president of the Liberal Democratic Party since October 2025. A member of the House of Representatives from 1993 to 2003 and since 2005, she has also held several ministerial posts under prime ministers Shinzo Abe and Fumio Kishida. If elected prime minister by the National Diet, she would become the first woman to hold the office, as well as the first from Nara Prefecture.
Born and raised in Nara, Takaichi graduated from Kobe University and worked as an author, legislative aide, and broadcaster before beginning her political career. Elected as an independent to the House of Representatives in 1993, she joined the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in 1996. A protégé of Abe, Takaichi held various positions during Abe's premiership, most notably as Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications. She was a candidate in the 2021 LDP leadership election, but was eliminated before the runoff, placing third. From 2022 to 2024, during Fumio Kishida's premiership, she served as Minister of State for Economic Security. Takaichi made her second run for the party leadership in 2024, where she came in first in the first round but narrowly lost in a runoff to Shigeru Ishiba. She ran again in 2025 and placed first in both rounds of voting, becoming party president and defeating Shinjirō Koizumi.
Her views have been variably described as conservative and ultraconservative. Her domestic policy includes support for proactive government spending and the continuation of Abenomics. She has taken conservative positions on social issues, such as opposition to same-sex marriage, the recognition of separate surnames for spouses, and female succession to the Japanese throne. Her foreign policy includes support for revising Article 9 of the Constitution of Japan, which renounces the use of military force, and strengthening the US–Japan alliance. She is considered pro-Taiwan and a China hawk. A member of the Japanese ultranationalist organization Nippon Kaigi, she has argued that Japanese war crimes have been exaggerated; she has regularly visited the controversial Yasukuni Shrine.
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