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.
