It has been 16 days since the inauguration of the Suga Cabinet.
Prime Minister Suga worked on reducing mobile phone charges and digitizing administrative procedures, but he abandoned his candidacy for the LDP presidential election and resigned. I'm thinking of giving.
It has been 16 days since the Suga Cabinet was established on September 16th last year.
Prime Minister Suga has been working on reducing mobile phone charges and digitizing administrative procedures, and on the 1st of this month, he launched the Digital Agency and aimed at the realization of a carbon-free society, "Greenhouse gases by 2050. Emissions will be reduced to zero as a whole. "
In foreign affairs, he visited the United States in April to meet with President Biden as the first foreign leader to meet face-to-face, and in June he attended the G7 Summit in the United Kingdom, the summit of seven major countries.
As for measures against the new coronavirus, emergency declarations are issued in various places, requests are made to stop the provision of alcohol at restaurants and shorten business hours, and while providing support to affected businesses, the spread of mutant viruses, etc. As a result, the countermeasures were prolonged, and it was pointed out that the people were "tired from self-restraint."
As a decisive factor in infection control, we actively work on vaccination, and more than 50% of the total population has completed the second vaccination.
Under these circumstances, Prime Minister Suga abandoned his candidacy for the LDP presidential election announced on the 17th, saying that he would like to concentrate on dealing with the new coronavirus, and will retire as the president's term expires at the end of this month. became.
Prime Minister Suga intends to do his utmost to combat the new coronavirus with the remaining term, such as aiming to lift the state of emergency in Tokyo and Osaka, which is due on the 30th of this month.