The Battle for the Chairmanship to Choose Mr. Kurauchi's Successor: An Unusual Draw to Decide the Outcome, a Tense Day Followed by Asahi Shimbun:

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The Fukuoka Prefectural Assembly (87 seats, 2 vacancies) opened on the 9th, and the election for the new Speaker was held to choose a successor to former Speaker Isao Kurauchi, who resigned from his position. While the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) prefectural assembly group is embroiled in a scandal involving alleged financial transactions related to the Speaker and Deputy Speaker positions, other factions have fielded a single "non-LDP candid…

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[Josei Jishin] Isao Kurauchi (72), former chairman of the Fukuoka Prefectural Assembly, was also known as the "Don of the Fukuoka Prefectural Assembly." In July of this year, he became the central figure in the "extortion scandal" within the prefectural assembly, making his name known nationwide. He resigned from his position as a member of the assembly in August, but since then, problems surrounding the prefectural assembly have continued to co…

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The Fukuoka Prefectural Assembly will soon open its September regular session, and an election for Speaker will be held following Mr. Kurauchi's resignation. The highly anticipated September session is about to begin, and people hoping to observe are gathering in the assembly building. The September session will include deliberations on a nationwide first: an ordinance protecting prefectural employees from prefectural assembly members, and a pol…

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The Fukuoka Prefectural Assembly issue, which began with an accusation by Prefectural Assembly member Genaki Yoshimatsu, has escalated to the point where the vice-speaker and speaker have resigned. Since then, the issue has even involved the national political world, with the Liberal Democratic Party headquarters mentioning the possibility of withdrawing its endorsement for candidates in the unified local elections, and shows no signs of abating.