Reference News Network January 29** According to the "Japan Economic News" on January 29**, the newspaper's recent poll shows that the approval rating of the cabinet led by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has fallen into "dangerous waters" for two consecutive months.
According to the report, although Kishida disbanded the Kishida faction due to political funding problems, it did not win back the confidence of the people. In addition, with only about a year and a half left in the current term of the House of Representatives, anxiety has begun to spread within the LDP.
According to the report, the cabinet approval rating in the survey increased by one percentage point from the previous month to 27%, which is almost negligible considering the statistical error. If the approval rating falls below 30 percent, it will fall into the so-called "dangerous waters" where the regime cannot sustain itself. There are also opinions within the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) that "it is inevitable that the issue of political funding will drag on for a long time, and the approval rating of the cabinet will continue to be sluggish."
According to the report, the failure to show a significant increase in support highlights the seriousness of the problems facing the Kishida cabinet.
The report pointed out that the symbolic effect of this is that the support of the cabinet has been lower than that of the Liberal Democratic Party for three consecutive months. In the survey, the LDP won the support of 31 percent of respondents, four percentage points higher than the approval rating of the cabinet.
This situation is a sign that even LDP supporters are beginning to turn away from the Cabinet, and there is a risk that there will be increased unease against the Prime Minister himself, who is in charge of the LDP.
According to the report, at present, Japan is still paying close attention to the follow-up treatment of the political funding issue. The LDP's mid-term summary on the issue of political funding, which was included in the LDP's interim summary on the issue of political funding, such as prohibiting political fund-raising rallies and imposing external monitoring of political funds, did not receive much acceptance. (Compiled by Liu Lin).
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