Junya Ogawa elected new leader of Japan's main opposition Centrist Reform Alliance-Xinhua

Junya Ogawa elected new leader of Japan's main opposition Centrist Reform Alliance

Source: Xinhua

Editor: huaxia

2026-02-13 12:41:30

TOKYO, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- Junya Ogawa was elected new leader of Japan's main opposition force, the Centrist Reform Alliance (CRA), on Friday.

Ogawa, former secretary general of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDPJ), won a simple majority vote by the party's 49 lower house lawmakers against Takeshi Shina, the CDPJ's former acting policy chief. ■