A public opinion poll showed that 58% of voters want Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to resign as prime minister, while only 28% want him to remain as prime minister.
Asahi Shimbun conducted a two-day public opinion poll on the 16th and 17th of this month, showing that the approval rating for the Kishida Cabinet was 23% and the disapproval rating was 66%, recording the highest approval rating and opposition since the Liberal Democratic Party returned to power in December 2012. 18 I told you about it.
In particular, 66% of respondents from the Liberal Democratic Party supporters wanted Kishida to remain as prime minister, while 65% of non-party supporters supported his resignation, showing a split pattern.
However, in this survey, expectations for the current opposition party as a force to replace the Liberal Democratic Party were extremely low. While only 15% of respondents said they could ‘have expectations’ from the opposition party, those who ‘could not have expectations’ were as high as 78%.
Among the supporters of the largest opposition parties, the Constitutional Democratic Party and the Japan Restoration Association, only 20% of respondents said they could ‘have expectations’ from the opposition party, while close to 80% responded that they ‘had no expectations’.
In the same survey conducted around October last year, one year after the Kishida administration was launched, 15% of respondents expressed expectations for the opposition party, while 81% had ‘no expectations’. Negative evaluations of the opposition party have decreased slightly over the past year.
In this opinion poll, among those who answered that Prime Minister Kishida should be reappointed, 78% responded that they ‘cannot expect’ from the opposition party, but among those who responded that ‘Please resign’ from Prime Minister Kishida, they ‘cannot expect’ from the opposition party. The media pointed out that 82% of people answered ‘no’.
The Asahi Shimbun said, “The opinion poll on whether the Prime Minister will be reappointed was conducted during the time of Prime Minister Naoto Kan, the month after the Great East Japan Earthquake (April 2011 opinion poll), and during the time of Prime Minister Taro Aso, who resigned due to Finance Minister Shoichi Kagawa’s ramblings at a press conference (2009). “It was also conducted in the February 2018 survey.”
At the same time, “36% of respondents said that Prime Minister Kan at the time should be reappointed,” and 43% said that he should resign. Regarding Prime Minister Aso, 15% of respondents said, “Please reappoint,” and 15% said, “Please resign.” The response was 71%.”
Meanwhile, the approval rating for the Kishida cabinet has recently fallen to 16% due to a series of slush fund scandals within the government, raising calls for responsibility, including resignation, inside and outside the cabinet.
Source: Donga
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