Mr Ward has been summoned to a meeting with party whips next week.

BBC: David Ward

Mr Takamuki was summoned to the ruling Liberal Democratic Party headquarters and asked to think hard about Chizaki.

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It was only after Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union's new leader, summoned Mr Yeltsin to Moscow in 1985 that he began to differentiate himself from dozens of other senior party apparatchiks.

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