Yuriko Koike was re-elected Tokyo governor on Sunday, according to an exit poll released by public broadcaster NHK, after winning over voters with her handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Japanese capital.
Voters wearing protective face masks disinfect their hands and put on vinyl gloves at the entrance of a voting station for the Tokyo Governor election amid the coronavirus disease outbreak, in Tokyo, Japan July 5, 2020. REUTERS/Issei Kato
“Our urgent task, above everything else, is coronavirus responses,” Koike, who became Tokyo’s first woman governor in 2016 and has won plaudits for her straight-talking on the coronavirus, said after NHK called her election win.The metropolis accounts for 11% of Japan’s population, but has represented half of the country’s daily infections in recent weeks.
Preventive measures pushed Japan, the world’s third-biggest economy, into a recession in the first quarter, with a deeper contraction expected in the April-June period. Koike has said she aims for a safe, secure and simplified event. A survey by the Asahi newspaper showed last month that 59% of those polled believe the Games should be cancelled or postponed again.
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