Yoshihide Suga's cabinet approval rate drops to a new low, over 60% of the people do not want him to be re-elected

　　China News Service, August 17th. According to Kyodo News, Japan’s national telephone public opinion survey conducted by Kyodo News from the 14th to the 16th showed that the approval rate of the cabinet of Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga was 31.8%, which was lower than the previous July survey. 4.1 percentage points fell to a new low since coming to power in September last year.

This is the lowest approval rate since the Liberal Democratic Party took power again in 2012.

The data picture shows Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga.

　　The survey showed that Yoshihide Suga's disapproval rate increased by 0.8 percentage points to 50.6%, exceeding half for the first time.

Regarding the restrictions on hospitalization of patients with COVID-19, 79.9% of respondents said they were "uneasy" about the government's measures to ensure hospital beds.

　　For the Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, who welcomed the expiration of the term of office of the president of the Democratic Party at the end of September, he answered "hope" that he will be re-elected in the presidential election, and 27.5% of those who continued to serve as prime minister answered "no hope" that he would continue to be prime minister accounted for 65.1%.

　　For hosting the Tokyo Olympics, 62.9% answered “good” and 30.8% answered “bad”.

59.8% of the answers believed that hosting the Olympics was one of the reasons for the expansion of the new crown epidemic.

　　Regarding the Tokyo Paralympic Games, which will open on the 24th, 64.7% answered “should be held empty” and 19.0% answered “should be closed”.

　　Regarding the proportional representation of voters in the next House of Representatives election, 38.4% will vote for the Liberal Democratic Party, followed by the Cadet Party 12.2%, the Japanese Restoration Council 6.1%, the Communist Party 5.5%, and the Komei Party 5.0%.

　　In terms of party support, the Liberal Democratic Party is 39.5%, the Liberal Democratic Party is 11.6%, the Komeito Party is 4.5%, the Communist Party is 4.7%, the Japan Restoration Council is 6.0%, the National Democratic Party is 1.2%, and the Social Democratic Party is 0.5%.

27.3% of the non-partisan population who said "no support party".

　　Since the Liberal Democratic Party came to power again in December 2012, the cabinet's support rate was the lowest before it was 35.8% of the Abe cabinet in July 2017.