IOC recommends de facto resignation… Tokyo back turn
Kawabuchi’s former president of the Football Association is a leading successor… Exclusion of former Prime Minister Abe
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The Tokyo Olympics organizer Mori decided to step down, who aroused controversy with his disrespectful remarks. Former Prime Minister Abe was once mentioned as the successor, but it is said to have been excluded due to concerns about internal controversy.
Correspondent Yoon Seol-young reports.
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Chairman Mori’s resignation was largely influenced by the IOC statement on the 9th.
The IOC, which initially said, “I apologized, is over,” changed its position 180 degrees after five days, accusing Chairman Mori of “completely inappropriate”.
It was a de facto recommendation to resign.
The head of the host city, Tokyo, also turned his back on saying that he would not attend meetings attended by Chairman Mori.
[고이케 유리코/도쿄도지사 : 지금 여기에서 4자 회담을 해도, 그다지 긍정적인 메시지는 안 될 것 같아서, 저는 출석하지 않을 겁니다.]
There was also a backlash from Olympic sponsor companies and the departure of volunteers and torch-bearers.
As the backlash spread at home and abroad, Chairman Mori decided to announce his resignation at an emergency meeting tomorrow.
It’s been a week since an inappropriate remark: “If there are many women, meetings take longer.”
As a successor, Saburo Kawabuchi, the mayor of the Olympics, is being widely discussed as the former president of the Japan Football Association.
However, former chairman Kawabuchi also said, “When the rainy season begins, the coronavirus will disappear.”
Former Prime Minister Abe, who is in charge of the organizing committee’s honorary supreme advisor, has also been raised, but public opinion that it is inappropriate domestically is said to have been ruled out.
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