three big reasons! fumio kishida "retreat bravely from the rapids"
2024-09-20
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last week, the japanese liberal democratic party presidential election management committee announced that nine candidates had signed up for the current liberal democratic party presidential election, the largest number of candidates in history. the current japanese prime minister and liberal democratic party president fumio kishida announced last month that he would not run for the election, which means that he will no longer serve as prime minister after this election, and the new president will take over as prime minister. did kishida choose to "retire at the height of his career" because of the pressure of the continued decline in the cabinet's approval rating? or was it to take political responsibility for the liberal democratic party's "black money" scandal? is there another reason behind it? lian degui, executive director and professor of the china-japan-korea cooperation research center of shanghai international studies university, wang guangtao, associate professor of the japan research center of fudan university, and dragon tv reporter song kankan discussed this with host yuan ming when they were guests on the "global crossroads" program.
song kankan:many of the things he did were unpopular. the most important one was that, when people's lives were already very difficult, he still wanted to defend against tax increases. this kind of thing was very unpopular. this was the main reason why he was unpopular among the people.
wang guangtao:it is true that during his term in office, kishida fumio was involved in a "black money" scandal, his approval rating was not high, and he did not handle it well. this is the most important point. second, there is strong dissatisfaction with him within the liberal democratic party. the house of representatives election is likely to be held soon. if the liberal democratic party is in a slump now, including the cabinet's approval rating being maintained at 20% for a long time, it is very likely to be unfavorable for the next house of representatives election and the upcoming senate election. so these three factors combined forced kishida fumio to retreat.
lian degui:all "black gold" politics originated from factions. for this reason, the support rate of the kishida cabinet began to decline. everyone hates factions. if he wants to continue, he has to give an explanation to the people. his own faction was dissolved, which led to the dissolution of the main factions in the party. he wanted to show the people that he was going to deal with this matter now. once the faction was dissolved, it actually hurt him. the relationship between aso and kishida had already cracked. in the end, he announced that he would not participate in the next election because aso no longer supported him.
editor: wang lin
editor: zuo hehuan
