Fukuda’s Cabinet
Some big names within the LDP were appointed to key posts in Yasuo Fukuda’s cabinet. The appointees were named this morning.
It should come as no surprise that these guys were very helpful in building support for Fukuda, 71, in the two weeks before yesterday’s LDP intra-party presidential election.
Fukuda’s right hand man, the LDP secretary general, will be 69-year-old education minister Bunmei Ibuki.
Sadakazu Tanigaki, 62, the former finance minister, has been named chairman of the LDP Policy Research Council.
Another former LDP secretary general, Makoto Koga, 67, became the leader of the LDP Election Strategy Committee.
Toshihiro Nikai, the 68-year-old chairman of the LDP General Council under former prime minister Shinzo Abe, has retained his post in the new cabinet.
All of these men are either current or former faction leaders.
Yasuo Fukuda will be elected prime minister tomorrow, Tuesday September 25, 2007.
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