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On August 2, the DPJ’s Azuma Koshiishi was elected as Vice President of the House of Councillors in a plenary session of the upper chamber.
In the first ballot, the number of votes cast was 243, three more than the number of Diet members, so a rare second ballot was held. In this ballot, Koshiishi gained 226 votes, with one invalid vote and eleven blank votes.
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