Japan’s Kishida Cabinet Faces Record-Low Approval Rate: Impact and Analysis

2023-10-30 16:01:00

Original title: Japan’s Kishida Cabinet approval rate hits record low

Xinhua News Agency, Tokyo, October 30 (Reporter Jiang Qiaomei and Guo Dan) The poll results of the month released by All Nippon News Network on the 30th showed that the support rate of the cabinet led by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida fell to 26.9%, setting another record for Kishida in October 2021. A new low since taking office as Prime Minister.

The results of the survey conducted from the 28th to the 29th showed that Kishida’s cabinet support rate fell by 3.8 percentage points from the previous month’s survey, which has been falling for six consecutive months; the cabinet’s disapproval rate was 51.8%, 3.5 percentage points higher than the previous month’s survey. percentage point.

On the same day, “Nihon Keizai Shimbun” announced the results of a poll jointly conducted by it and TV Tokyo from the 27th to the 29th. The support rate for the Kishida cabinet that month was 33%, a drop of 9 percentage points from the previous month, the lowest in the poll since Kishida came to power. record. The disapproval rate for the cabinet was 59%, 8 percentage points higher than last month’s survey. The main reasons for not supporting include “bad policies” and “lack of leadership”.

“Nihon Keizai Shimbun” published an editorial on the same day stating that the plummeting approval rate of the cabinet sounded the alarm for the Kishida regime. The article believes that Kishida’s signature policies such as “new capitalism” and “digital garden city national concept” lack results.

In the Japanese political arena, if the cabinet support rate falls below 30%, public opinion considers it to be in “dangerous waters”. If it falls further below 20%, it will be regarded as falling into “step-down waters”.

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