2024 Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) leadership election

The 2024 Liberal Democratic Party presidential election will be held on September 2024 to elect the next president of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan for a 3-year term. The winner of the election will effectively become the Prime Minister of Japan and will lead the party in the next Japanese general election (if it takes place after the leadership election) and the next House of Councillors election in July 2025.

The leadership election will take place amidst the LDP's controversy over its affiliation with the Unification Church new religious movement following Shinzo Abe's assassination in 2022, an ongoing slush fund scandal involving the conservative Seiwa Seisaku Kenkyūkai (Seiwakai) and Shisuikai factions, and other issues which has led to incumbent president and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida becoming the most unpopular Prime minister since the LDP's return to power in 2012.^[1]^[2]^[3]

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^ Reidy, Gearoid (2023-11-07). "Kishida is so unpopular, he can't even give money away". The Japan Times. Retrieved 2024-01-17.
^ "Kishida among most unpopular Japanese prime ministers ever, new polls show". South China Morning Post. 2023-12-18. Retrieved 2024-01-17.