The rating of the Japanese government led by Shigeru Ishiba fell by 12.7 percentage points to 38.9% over the month, according to a public opinion poll conducted by the news service of the Japanese television company TBS.
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The number of those who express no confidence in the government, on the contrary, increased by 13.8 percentage points to 57.3%.
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The ruling Liberal Democratic Party lost 9.3 percentage points and now has a rating of 24.6%. At the same time, opposition parties strengthened their positions: the rating of the main opposition force, the Constitutional Democratic Party, increased by 1.1 points to 12.8%, the Japan Renewal Party (Nippon Ishi no Kai) – by 0.1 points to 4%, People’s Democratic Party – by 7.6 points to 9.1%.
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The survey results largely confirm the results of the elections to the lower house of parliament held in Japan on October 27. The elections were disastrous for the ruling coalition: the Liberal Democratic Party received 191 seats instead of 247, Komeito – 24 instead of 32. Opposition parties and independent candidates collectively received more than half of the seats in the lower house – 250 out of 465, and the ruling coalition of the LDP and Komeito together 215 seats, that is, less than half – 233 seats in the lower house. Before the elections, the ruling coalition had 279 parliamentary seats.
