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| Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Monday, November 19, 2001 |
Public Support For Koizumi Cabinet Falls to 75 Percent: Poll |
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Public support rate for Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's cabinet dropped 6 percentage points from October to 75 percent, according to a poll published Monday by a leading Japanese daily newspaper.
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Public support rate for Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's cabinet dropped 6 percentage points from October to 75 percent, according to a poll published Monday by a leading Japanese daily newspaper.
It is the first time the support rate for Koizumi's cabinet broke below the 80 percent line since the cabinet was launched in April.
The survey, conducted by Mainichi Shimbun on Saturday, shows 13 percent of people disapprove of the cabinet, up 2 points from the last survey.
Of those respondents who do not support the cabinet, 41 percent said they cannot expect new policies from the cabinet, nearly double the figure from the previous survey.
While support remains high in absolute terms, Japan's sluggish economy, slow progress in efforts to reform special public corporations and confusion surrounding reform of the Foreign Ministry combined to work against the cabinet, the paper said.
Meanwhile, support for Japanese Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka, who is locked in a struggle with ministry bureaucrats, stood at a high 70 percent although it is down 10 points from the May survey.
The random telephone survey was conducted on 1,066 people across Japan.
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