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CHRONIC. Authority and convictions, no compromise. Both will have led their country for ten years and will have profoundly transformed it.
By Guy Sorman
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Lhe murder of Shinzo Abe, on July 8, haloed the glory of the martyr this former Prime Minister who, in fact, still exercised power behind the screen. Abe is certainly not the first political leader to be assassinated; the list is long, since the 1920s. But these attacks, generally, were perpetrated by militants of the extreme right or extreme left. This time, the message is absent, the murderer had no motive.
However, the man was authoritarian, with strong ideas affirmed without complex: an exception in the line of Japanese leaders, as a rule dull and insignificant. The reason is that they are chosen after long negotiations within the clans which together constitute the Liberal Democratic Party, in…
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