(Web Desk) Unpopular Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has announced his resignation from his post next month.
According to the foreign news agency “AFP”, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s resignation will end his unpopular and economically troubled 3-year rule.
67-year-old Fumio Kishida, who has been prime minister since October 2021, has seen his and his party’s poll ratings drop sharply due to rising prices affecting the incomes of Japanese citizens and several scandals. 170 trillion (more than $100 billion at the time) announced a huge package to reduce inflationary pressures and try to save his prime ministership, but this move also failed voters in the country with the world’s fourth largest economy and He failed to increase his popularity in his own party.
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The ruling Liberal Democratic Party, which has been ruling almost uninterruptedly for decades, will hold a contest next month to elect its leader, the winner of which will become the prime minister. Will not participate in the re-election as a candidate.
Speaking to reporters in Tokyo, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishidane said that the party’s presidential election must show people that the LDP is changing and that the party is a new LDP. For this purpose, transparent, open elections and A free and full debate is essential, the most obvious first step to show that the LDP will change is my separation.
2024-08-14 16:12:18