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Urgent: Japanese PM re-elected as LDP president as no challenger emerges

Xinhua, September 8, 2015 Adjust font size:

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been re-elected as party chief without a vote as nobody filed candidacy for the presidential election set for Sept. 20, local media reported Tuesday.

The LDP received applications from candidates from 8 a.m. to 8: 30 a.m. local time Tuesday. Senior lawmakers Seiko Noda, who has expressed her intention to challenge Abe, gave up at last on filing candidacy, said Japan's Kyodo News Agency. Endi