2024-02-17 11:53:28
At the end of January, the Tokyo prosecutor’s office’s investigation into the scandal linked to the fundraising evenings of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) ended with the indictment of three national elected officials from training, suspected of having violated the law on political funds. In this case, several factions of the group are accused of not having declared part of the sums collected during their fundraising evenings, the total amount of which is estimated at more than 830 million yen (5 million euros), according to the public channel NHK.
Faced with the outcry from the opposition and the sudden drop in his popularity rating, which, according to the latest survey by the Jiji Tsushin press agency, is now only 16.9%, the Prime Minister, Fumio Kishida, proceeded to
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