let's bring in our north asian correspondent stephen engel t culminates k we draw any conclusions onll of this behind -- behind the scenes horse trading i should say has been going? >> the political rang willing has been -- wrack willing has been fierce, when took over -- yoshihide suga took over from abe. this year will the japanese consider more continuity under this obviously covid time? this will be the third prime minister in the covid era. shinzo abe, suga and one of these four individuals who will stand for the l.d.p., the leeb real democratic party, the ruling party in japan. the leadership vote today. we're going to get more than a million rank and file l.d.p. members voting. actually, they had to vote as of last night. and lawmakers will vote today. we'll get a result by 2:20 japan standard time. so 1:20 hong kong today. it's very unlikely one of them will get an outright majority. so what will likely happen is we'll have a runoff between the top two candidates. and right now, as you saw those four individuals, opinion polls don't matter much. because this is not a public v