TOKYO: The disapproval rating for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s administration exceeded that in favour, a survey by Kyodo news agency showed on Sunday, underscoring the headwind Abe faces as a fledging new party challenges his ruling bloc in this month’s election. Abe called…
TOKYO: The disapproval rating for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s administration exceeded that in favour, a survey by Kyodo news agency showed on Sunday, underscoring the headwind Abe faces as a fledging new party challenges his ruling bloc in this month’s election.
Abe called the general election hoping to keep his conservative Liberal Democratic Party-led coalition’s majority in parliament’s lower house, where it had a two-thirds „super“ majority before dissolution.
But his bet now looks increasingly shaky, given growing support for popular Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike’s new „Party of Hope“ and the opposition Democratic Party’s move to have its candidates leave the party and run on her ticket.
