Tokyo, Nov. 11 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba pledged to reform his ruling party after winning re-election in a vote in parliament on Monday.

The Liberal Democratic Party “must be reborn as the national party it should be after a harsh result,” Ishiba, also president of the LDP, said at a press conference, referring to the party’s losses in last month’s general election.

“I will return to the starting point that politics belongs to the people and work on political and party reforms,” ​​he said.

He said he will urge LDP lawmakers implicated in a slush funds scandal to actively use all opportunities, including parliamentary ethics panels, to take accountability.

Ishiba pledged to efforts to enable necessary legislative measures by the end of this year to implement political reform.

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