Beijing News reporter Zhu Yuehong Editor Zhang Lei Proofreader Zhao Lin.
A survey by Japan's Kyodo News Agency on February 4 showed that the approval rating of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's cabinet fell by 2 percent from the results of the last poll8 percentage points, down to 245%γ
Most of the respondents expressed dissatisfaction with the investigative work done by Fumio Kishida in connection with the "black gold" scandal. About 84Nine percent of respondents said LDP lawmakers should explain the use of funds related to the "black gold" scandal, and 87 percent expected the reform package proposed by the LDP in its recent interim report to help the LDP regain public trust.
Japan's "Mainichi Shimbun" commented that the results of the survey showed that Fumio Kishida had not regained the trust of the people, and most respondents did not agree with a series of measures taken by Fumio Kishida himself for party reform.
The survey also showed that the LDP had a support rating of 315%, which is the highest among all Japanese political parties, but lower than the previous 333%γAt the same time, the support of the main opposition party, the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, fell from 81% to 90%, and the support of the Japan Restoration Association increased from 88% to 94%γ
According to CCTV News, in November last year, the Liberal Democratic Party broke out in a "black gold" scandal, and a number of factions in the party issued sales targets for their MPs, asking them to ** political fundraising party coupons. If the sales target is exceeded, the excess funds are returned to the parliamentarian in the form of a "kickback". This part of the fund is not registered in the report of the income and expenditure of the faction and the report of the income and expenditure of the political funds of the parliamentarians, and thus becomes an unregulated secret fund. The Special Investigation Division of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors' Office then intervened in the investigation.
Affected by the "black gold" scandal, the political distrust of the Japanese people has increased. The scandal had a blow to the approval ratings of the Kishida cabinet. Mainichi Shimbun data pointed out that in December last year, the approval rating of the Kishida cabinet hit a record low of 223%, including the last poll in January this year, Kishida's approval rating has hovered around 20% in the past four polls.
In order to restore the trust of the people, Fumio Kishida made the decision to dissolve the faction and also pushed the Liberal Democratic Party to replace the faction with a "policy bloc". On January 19 this year, Fumio Kishida announced the dissolution of the "Kishida faction" that he had served as chairman for many years, and then the largest factions of the Liberal Democratic Party, the "** faction" and the "second-order faction", also decided to dissolve on the same day. At the end of January, following the announcement of the dissolution of the Liberal Democratic Party's "Moriyama faction", the party's secretary-general, Toshimitsu Motegi, said that the "Motegi faction" led by him would dissolve the so-called faction and transform into a new "policy bloc." The "Aso faction" said that it would continue to exist as a "policy group".
Duty Editor: Li plus or minus.