June 16 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Government of Japan’s Prime Minister, Fumio Kishida, has successfully emerged this Friday from the motion of no confidence presented against him by opposition deputies just one day after the president ruled out the possibility of calling early elections.
During the plenary session, the deputies have rejected the motion, presented by the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan. Thus, the Liberal Democratic Party, Komeito, the Japan Restoration Party and the People’s Democratic Party have voted against it, while the Communist Party and the Social Democrats have supported the motion of no confidence.
The motion included a series of criticisms against Kishida in relation to the financing of some of his main policies, including the increase in the budget for Defense.
The measure has lost support after Kishida assured that he would not call early elections despite the fact that the opposition presented said motion, according to information from the Kiodo news agency.
The opposition bloc’s decision comes after the party’s leader, Kenta Izumi, accused Kishida of “playing with the idea of dissolving” Parliament for weeks.
Kishida, however, indicated on Tuesday that he would make a decision on the matter after “taking into account several variables”, a slight twist on his previous statements, when he insisted that he “was not considering calling early elections.” However, he has finally chosen to remain in office until the end of the legislature.
