Kishida Cabinet Support Down To Record Low Of 33.1%

The support rate for Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's Cabinet has dropped to 33.1 percent, the lowest since its launch last year, a Kyodo News survey showed Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022, after three of his ministers were forced out in less than a month.

Photo Insert: Kishida on the campaign trail back in 2021

The approval rating was down from 37.6 percent in the previous poll conducted in late October, while the disapproval rating rose to 51.6 percent, exceeding 50 percent for the first time since Kishida took office in October last year, according to the two-day nationwide telephone survey conducted from Saturday.

Kishida's leadership has increasingly been called into question, marked in this survey by 30.2 percent of respondents asked when they want the prime minister to resign saying "as soon as possible."

For other answers to the query, 29.4 percent said they are willing to wait until his term as the head of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party ends in September 2024, while 23.6 percent said until after the Group of Seven summit to be hosted by Japan in Hiroshima in May next year.

The latest poll showed that 62.4 percent of survey respondents see Kishida's sacking of the three ministers as too late, while 26.0 percent think the timing was appropriate.

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