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[Global Network Report Reporter Lin Zeyu] Unanimously elected by the members of the Largest Hosoda faction (Kiyowakai) of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, Abe Shinzo will be inaugurated as the new president of the Hosoda faction on the 11th, and Japan's "Yomiuri Shimbun" reported on the 9th that this means that the Kiyowa will become the Abe faction. "Nikkan New Wave" published an article on the 10th that after Abe stepped down as prime minister for a year, he gradually came to the foreground from behind the scenes. The report also said that he tried to realize his plan to visit Taiwan for the first time.
Yomiuri Shimbun: The Hosoda faction, the largest faction of the Liberal Democratic Party, will become the "Abe faction," and the cadres' meeting unanimously recommended him as president
According to the Yomiuri Shimbun, the 87-member CheongwaKai is the largest faction within the Liberal Democratic Party, and 1/4 of the LDP's members of the House of Representatives are from the Seiwahui. The Yomiuri Shimbun also said that Abe left the Kiyowakai before the formation of the second Abe cabinet in 2012, but in the September LDP presidential election, Abe's intention was enough to influence the faction's movements, and in the October House election, Abe supported the campaign of the Qinghekai candidates, working to consolidate his position, aiming to change the general name of the Kiyowakai from "Hosoda faction" to "Abe faction".
Shinzo Abe (left) and Hiroyuki Hosoda, current president of the Kiyowakai (Japanese media photo in June)
According to the Yomiuri Shimbun, in view of the doubts that still exist in the issue of Abe's "cherry blossom viewing party", there are opinions within the KiyowaKai that it should be carefully considered, and there are differences, but from the result, the opinion of expecting Abe to serve as the president is the mainstream. According to reports, the current president of the Kiyowakai, Hiroyuki Hosoda, is about to become the speaker of the House of Representatives, and the Keiwakai held a meeting of cadres on November 9, and unanimously agreed to nominate former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to succeed Hosoda Hiroyuki as the chairman of the faction.
Abe will become the president of the Qinghe Association, a number of Japanese media analysis said that Abe's political and diplomatic activities will be more frequent, it is worth vigilance that Abe is not only a typical Japanese right-wing politician, but also has its own ties with "Taiwan independence" forces. In an article, Nikkan Shincho said that in addition to being the president of the Kiyowa Association, Abe will also visit Malaysia as a special envoy in December, and former Prime Minister Abe has gradually moved from behind the scenes to the front. The article also mentioned that sources revealed that Abe is making adjustments to his plans for his first visit to Taiwan as a former Japanese prime minister.
"Nikkan Shincho": Abe is making adjustments to his first visit to Taiwan as a former prime minister, pinning down the so-called "pro-China" Prime Minister Kishida and new Foreign Minister Lin Yoshimasa
According to the Nikkan Shincho newspaper, Abe served as an adviser to the so-called pro-Taiwan parliamentarians' coalition "Japan-China Parliamentarians' Earnest Talks," and in an interview with Japan's right-wing media Sankei Shimbun in July, he claimed that "if the situation permits, I hope to visit Lee Teng-hui's tomb." This remark was also welcomed by the DPP authorities in Taiwan. The Nikkan Shincho, citing people familiar with the matter, said that Abe's plan to visit Taiwan may be realized next year (2022), which can be seen as a containment for Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio and the new foreign minister Lin Fangzheng. Kishida Fumio and Lin Fang are the top brass of the Liberal Democratic Party's liberal Hiroike Association, of whom Hayashi is also the president of the Japan-China Friendship Parliamentarians Alliance, and his attitude toward China is incompatible with that of Shinzo Abe and his brother Kishi Nobuo. Another person familiar with the matter said, "Abe himself knows in his heart that if he does not increase his centripetal force, he may become the next (snubbed) Kono Taro."
Fumio Kishida (left), then chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party Poll, and Shinzo Abe, then Japanese Prime Minister (Photo by Japanese media in March 2020)