TOKYO (Reuters) – Executives of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party agreed on Tuesday to hold its leadership race in a slimmed-down format to choose the successor of outgoing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Secretary-General Toshihiro Nikai said.
A formal decision will be made at the party’s general council gathering later in the day, he added.
“We must elect a new leader as soon as possible to avoid creating a political vacuum,” Nikai told reporters. “There was no objection to my view at the meeting.”
(Reporting by Tetsushi Kajimoto; Editing by Chris Gallagher)
