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Koizumi re-elected Premier

P. S. Suryanarayana

Junichiro Koizumi

SINGAPORE: Junichiro Koizumi, who won a landslide parliamentary majority in Japan's snap general election on September 11, was on Wednesday re-elected Prime Minister by the new House of Representatives at a special session in Tokyo.

Following this, Mr. Koizumi announced that he would retain his pre-election Cabinet until the end of the current session of the Diet (Parliament), now slated to conclude by November 1. He reaffirmed his pre-election plan to quit as Prime Minister by September next year.

In Wednesday's ballot in the 480-member House of Representatives, the charismatic 63-year-old Prime Minister secured 340 votes out of the 479 cast.

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