{"id":28420,"date":"2020-09-16T06:02:12","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T06:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=28420"},"modified":"2020-09-16T06:02:13","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T06:02:13","slug":"yoshihide-suga-elected-as-new-head-of-japans-ruling-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/yoshihide-suga-elected-as-new-head-of-japans-ruling-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoshihide Suga elected as new head of Japan&#8217;s ruling party"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yoshihide Suga was elected as the new head of Japan&#8217;s ruling party, received 377 votes in the Party election to pick a successor to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who announced last month that he would resign due to health problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key-Points<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Once he formally takes over, Suga will serve out Abe\u2019s remaining term as party chief until September 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Suga is currently the chief Cabinet secretary of Abe&#8217;s government and he will then be confirmed as Prime Minister by a special session of the country&#8217;s parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The closed-door politics also apparently led lawmakers to support Suga in hopes of getting favourable party and cabinet posts in the new administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite his low-key image as Abe&#8217;s right-hand man, Suga is actually known for his iron-fist approach to getting jobs done as a policy co-ordinator and influencing bureaucrats by using the centralized power of the prime minister&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yoshihide Suga was elected as the new head of Japan&#8217;s ruling party, received 377 votes in the Party election to pick a successor to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who announced last month that he would resign due to health problems. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Once he formally takes over, Suga will serve out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":28421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1273],"tags":[58],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-28420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-september-2020","tag-international-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28422,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28420\/revisions\/28422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28420"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=28420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}