Overview
On 10 March 2001, Prime Minister Yoshirō Mori summoned the five top LDP officials to his office. At this meeting, Mori stated that "we will bring forward this autumn's LDP presidential election", effectively announcing his resignation. On March 13, at the LDP convention held at the Nippon Budokan, Mori announced, "We will hold an early presidential election". [2] With the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly election looming in June, the LDP's Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly members issued a protest statement expressing dissatisfaction with Mori's "confusing resignation announcement". However, with the convention over, the LDP began the process of electing the next president. Koizumi was elected.
As the election to had occured only to fill remainder of Mori's term, Koizumi's term would expire in September 2001. Mori asked Koga to "increase the local votes," and Koga replied, "I'll do it because it's the president's order," increasing the prefectural vote count from one to three. [3] Shizuka Kamei, who had been running, concluded a policy agreement with Junichiro Koizumi and withdrew from the general election, supporting Koizumi instead (though after the election, Koizumi unilaterally reneged on all policy agreements). [4] [5] The date for the presidential election was then set for September, when the term of office expired. However, as a special measure, the party asked party members in the Diet whether they wanted to run prior to the announcement. Only one (Junichiro Koizumi) expressed interest in running. Therefore, Junichiro Koizumi was re-elected without a vote, and at the general meeting of both houses of the National Diet, which replaced the party convention on 10 August 2001, Junichiro Koizumi was reappointed as President.
Prefectural votes, which correspond to local votes, were expanded from one to three. Local primaries were held in 45 prefectures, excluding Hiroshima and Yamaguchi. The prefectural votes were awarded using a winner-take-all system, with the top candidate in the prefectural primary receiving three votes.
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