Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga held a New Year’s press conference on the 4th and said that he would consider declaring an emergency in four metropolitan areas, including Tokyo, where the number of confirmed cases is rapidly increasing. Tokyo/AFP Yonhap News
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, whose approval ratings are plummeting, is predicted that there is a possibility that Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga may express his intention to resign as early as the end of March. The extreme prospect of’short-lived for 6 months’ comes out because it is difficult to curb the spread of Corona 19 right away, and an important political schedule this year is crowded. In the latest issue of Japan’s current affairs weekly magazine, in response to the Corona 19 insolvency, the Suga government’s approval rating (based on survey) plummeted from 65% at the beginning of its inauguration in September last year to 39% in December after three months. It is reported that there is a talk about who will take it. An official at the official residence said, “Everyone will think that it will be difficult for Prime Minister Suga to recover public support in the future,” he said. Kichiya Kobayashi, a political critic, said, “If the approval rating falls below 30%, there is a red flag for maintaining the government. I predicted. Although the spread of Corona 19 had a direct impact on the Suga government’s drop in approval ratings, more fundamentally, it seems that there are great doubts about leadership. In a recent survey, 70% of the respondents said, “Prime Minister Suga is not showing leadership.” It means that the number of infected people increases every day, but the prime minister was not able to lead it strongly, and national anxiety increased even more. As leadership is shaken, there are concerns about whether the elections that must be judged by the people can be properly held. It is also necessary to decide when to dissolve the House of Representatives, whose term of office expires at the end of October after the by-election of the House of Representatives on April 25 this year (2 places) and the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly election in July. As if conscious of this, Prime Minister Suga spent considerable time explaining countermeasures against Corona 19 at the New Year’s press conference held for about 30 minutes on this day. He announced that he will review the declaration of an emergency in four areas in the metropolitan area, including Tokyo, Kanagawa, Chiba, and Saitama, where the number of confirmed cases has recently increased. Predicted that an emergency would be issued after expert discussions this week. However, even this was publicly requested by Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike and the like, and the government seems to be following. Regarding the vaccination, Prime Minister Suga said, “I will start before the end of next month,” and said that he would get the vaccine. The Japanese government signed a contract on the 11th of last month to receive 60 million copies of the Corona 19 vaccine developed by British pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca from this month. In addition, the total population (about 127 million) or more will be secured through a basic agreement with US Modena (for 20 million people) and Pfizer (for 60 million people) by June this year. Within the Liberal Democratic Party, it is said that in order for Prime Minister Suga’s approval rating to rise, there is a prospect that the vaccine effect will be a’inflection point’. By Kim So-yeon, staff reporter [email protected]