Overview
- Komeito formally approved Mitsunari Okamoto as its new representative at a party convention, launching a refreshed executive team.
- Minoru Nishida was retained as secretary-general and Hiromasa Nakano was appointed policy chief, while former representative Toshiko Taketani moved to deputy representative.
- Party officials framed the personnel changes as a response to the stalled three-party merger with the Chudo Reform Union and the Constitutional Democratic Party and as a step to reorganize the party.
- Okamoto, a six-time Lower House member with a background in finance, is reported to have a two-year term and will oversee reintegration of Diet members who returned after the Chudo group dissolved.
- The new leadership says it will focus on rebuilding local party operations to contest the unified local elections next spring and to prepare campaign plans for the 2028 Upper House race.