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Japan’s parliament on Tuesday elected ultraconservative Sanae Takaichi as the country’s first female prime minister, a historic first that comes one day after her struggling party struck a coalition deal with a new partner that would pull her governing bloc further to the right.
In a parliamentary election, lawmakers in the Lower House voted for Takaichi with 237 votes, more than what was needed for a simple majority. Earlier, she won the vote in the less powerful Upper House of Parliament.
Takaichi will replace Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, ending a three-month political vacuum and wrangling since the Liberal Democratic Party’s disastrous election loss in July.
Ishiba, who lasted only one year in office, resigned with his Cabinet earlier Tues
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