TOKYO: Support for that government of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida edged upward in the wake of his ruling party’s election win, yet hurdles remain to get key parts of their agenda, including constitutional revision, according to opinion polls.
Kishida’s ruling Generous Democratic Party (LDP) increased its chairs held in the upper house of parliament in Sunday’s political election, and maintained a number with its conservative coalition in the poll, executed two days after former prime minister Shinzo Abe was killed in a campaign rally.
Support regarding Kishida’s government increased to 65 percent in a poll from the Yomiuri Shimbun, up 8 points from the late June survey, while a different vote by Kyodo Information Agency pegged support at 63. 2 per cent, up six. 3 points.
Both polls had been conducted on Mon (Jul 11) and Tuesday.
A vast majority of voters polled by Yomiuri, 79 percent, want Kishida to stay in office for a minimum of two years, or throughout the time of the next selection for president of the LDP, who simply by virtue of their party’s majority turns into prime minister.
Of that, 27 per cent wanted him because prime minister for “as long because possible”.
But this support doesn’t invariably translate into support designed for Kishida’s agenda, including revising the pacifist constitution – something that Abe had desired to do.
Just 37 per cent of voters polled by Kyodo thought the matter should be handled “speedily, ” while fifty eight. 4 per cent thought there’s no need for haste.