Only 10.4% of Japanese would like Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to remain as chairman of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party after re-elections in September and, accordingly, as head of government, such data was released by the Kyodo agency based on the results of its own public opinion survey.
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36.6% are in favor of him “resigning as soon as possible.”
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The rating of the cabinet of ministers was 22.2%, which is 2 percentage points lower than the previous survey last year, 62.4% refused to trust the government.
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Respondents also evaluate the measures taken by the Cabinet of Ministers negatively. Thus, 69.6% consider measures to support the population due to rising prices ineffective, only 27.1% recognize their benefits.
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More than 90% consider the reform for a more transparent distribution of party funds carried out by the ruling party to be insufficient; only 7.6% consider the measures effective.
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The number of respondents is not reported.
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In September, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party will hold scheduled elections for the party chairman, who will also become the head of government.
