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The approval rating for the government of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has fallen by 4.4 percentage points to 20.1% in a month, a survey commissioned by the Kyodo news agency showed on Sunday (10 March).
This is the lowest approval rating for Kishida's cabinet, which was formed in October 2021, since the all-time low of 22.3% reported in December last year. In February, the government was supported by 24.5% of respondents, according to a Kyodo survey.
Over 64% of respondents do not trust the government which is by over 5 percentage points more since the last month, the survey showed.
The absolute majority of respondents - 91.4% - believes that the ruling LDP’s lawmakers involved in the financial "kickback" scandal have not presented enough explanations to the ethics commission in the lower house of the parliament, the survey read.
The poll was conducted from March 9-10 via phone call interviews with 1,043 people over 18 years old taking part.
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