Support for Japan’s prime minister falls 15 points in a month

June 26 (EUROPA PRESS) –

Support for Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has fallen 15 points in one month, to 41 percent, according to a survey published by the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper.

The collapse of Kishida’s popularity would be linked to the problems in the implementation of a personal identification number for each resident in Japan known as My Number, an initiative suspended since May after detecting thirteen confirmed cases of errors in the database by the that a person was misidentified.

Another of the reasons that analysts point out for the drop in Kishida’s popularity is the lack of confidence in the measures announced to try to stop the fall in birth rates.

The survey is the result of the interviews carried out since Friday and during the weekend and contrasts with the figure obtained by Kishida in May, favored by the celebration of the summit of the G-7 leaders in the city of Hiroshima.

The disapproval rate for Kishida’s management (44 percent) exceeds the approval rate for the first time since April, when the president was boosted by the diplomatic rapprochement with South Korea.

Another survey carried out by the newspaper ‘Nikkei’ and Tv Tokyo coincides with the trend and reveals an eight-point drop in Kishida’s approval, to 39 percent.

Kishida’s chief of staff, Hirokazu Matsuno, declared this Monday at a press conference that the government “is not guided by the polls” and that it will continue working to alleviate public discontent with the My Number project.

In this sense, he has ensured that the elimination of Social Security cards to include them in the new cards will be carried out in a way that guarantees confidence in the system.

In terms of voting intentions, Kishida’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leads with 34 percent in both polls, followed far behind by the Initiatives from Japan party (6-12 percent) and the Constitutional Party. Japan’s Democratic Party (4-9 percent), according to the ‘Nikkei’ ‘Yomiuri’ polls.