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But the recent ascension of Takaichi, Shinzo Abe's protege, suggests more tensions may lie ahead.

In her early 80s she mentored a protégé, Hakeem Jeffries, to take her spot as party leader.

Following another disappointing outing at last month's Mexico City Grand Prix, where he was hit by a harsh 10-second penalty in the race, rumours began to circulate that he could be replaced by 20-year-old Briton Oliver Bearman, a Ferrari protege currently with Haas.

Cheney next became a protégé of Donald Rumsfeld, then the director of the Office of Economic Opportunity.

Sheinbaum, a protege of López Obrador, embraced her predecessor’s approach but sought to improve Mexico’s intelligence-gathering and investigatory powers and strengthen the rule of law.