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Popularity of Japanese Premier Goes Down
Popularity of Japanese Premier Shinzo Abe shed by more than 20 pct during three months of his ruling.
The independent telephone polls of public opinion held in Japan by Asahi (2018 respondents) and Mainichi (1451) newspapers from December 9 to 10 and by the national NHK TV Channel (1300) on December 11 showed that 47 percent, 46 percent and 48 percent of respondents respectively backed up the policy of Japanese Premier Shinzo Abe, while 32 percent, 30 percent and 29 percent opposed it.
Quite a lot of respondents (46 percent, Asahi) think the premier is drifting from the course of reforms, he has no real capacities of a leader (33 percent, Mainichi) and that he was wrong to again accept to the ruling Liberal Democratic Party 11 legislators expelled from it in time of the former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi for opposing the mail reform (67 percent, Asahi). The NHK poll showed that most of LDP members (65 percent) think the prime minister lacks centripetal force to unite talented people around him.
For Shinzo Abe, this sentiment of public at large could trigger material difficulties at summer elections to the upper house of parliament, the analysts concluded.
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