Ldp.

abbreviation

1. ladyship.

2. lordship.

Example Sentences

She's the protégé of the late former hawkish prime minister Shinzo Abe, and was backed in the leadership election by Taro Aso - a senior figure in the LDP at the head of one of the ruling party's most influential conservative blocs.

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Ishiba, who secured the trade deal with the U.S., had been under pressure to stand down after a year in his post following back-to-back election losses that cost the LDP’s ruling coalition its majority in both houses of Japan’s parliament, the Diet.

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In choosing the conservative Takaichi as its new leader, the center-right LDP is gambling that it can improve its electoral fortunes by winning back conservative voters who have deserted the party in favor of populist right-wing upstarts such as Sanseito, which won a rash of seats in a parliamentary election in July on an anti-immigration platform.

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The stock market has welcomed Takaichi’s ascendance, rising about 8% since she was elected LDP leader.

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Takaichi, who played drums in a rock band and rode a motorcycle in her youth, was elected president of the Liberal Democratic Party earlier this month after her predecessor as both LDP leader and prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba, said he would resign.

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