Noda boasts two-thirds support
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September 5, 2011, Monday
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TWO-THIRDS of Japanese voters support new Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda as his call for unity within the ruling party and conciliatory stance toward the opposition raised hopes for speedy policy implementation, newspaper polls showed yesterday.
This was a sharp turnaround from his predecessor, Naoto Kan, whose support fell below 20 percent after a political stalemate due to rebels within his Democratic Party and a divided parliament, where the opposition controls the upper chamber and can block bills.
But potential trouble for Japan's new leader is already brewing as the Asahi newspaper said Noda had received a political donation from a non-Japanese resident. A similar development forced Seiji Maehara to step down as foreign minister in March.
Noda, a fiscal hawk, became Japan's sixth premier in five years last week, pledging to tackle fiscal reforms to rein in huge public debt - now twice the size of the country's US$5 trillion economy - but with an eye on growth.
Support for the Noda government was 67 percent, according to a poll by the Nikkei business daily, compared with 19 percent for Kan's cabinet in the previous survey conducted in late July.
Polls by three other major newspapers, Yomiuri, Mainichi and Asahi, showed that support for Noda, who is tasked to forge a new energy policy while ending a radiation crisis caused by a tsunami in March, came to 65 percent, 56 percent and 53 percent, respectively. Another poll by Kyodo news agency showed similar results on Saturday.
In the Nikkei survey, 36 percent of those polled said they support Noda's Democratic Party, compared with 30 percent in favor of the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), boding well for the DPJ's fortunes in the next election. In the previous survey in July, more voters supported the LDP than the ruling party.
A lower house election is not mandated until late 2013, and Noda on Friday ruled out a snap election for now.
This was a sharp turnaround from his predecessor, Naoto Kan, whose support fell below 20 percent after a political stalemate due to rebels within his Democratic Party and a divided parliament, where the opposition controls the upper chamber and can block bills.
But potential trouble for Japan's new leader is already brewing as the Asahi newspaper said Noda had received a political donation from a non-Japanese resident. A similar development forced Seiji Maehara to step down as foreign minister in March.
Noda, a fiscal hawk, became Japan's sixth premier in five years last week, pledging to tackle fiscal reforms to rein in huge public debt - now twice the size of the country's US$5 trillion economy - but with an eye on growth.
Support for the Noda government was 67 percent, according to a poll by the Nikkei business daily, compared with 19 percent for Kan's cabinet in the previous survey conducted in late July.
Polls by three other major newspapers, Yomiuri, Mainichi and Asahi, showed that support for Noda, who is tasked to forge a new energy policy while ending a radiation crisis caused by a tsunami in March, came to 65 percent, 56 percent and 53 percent, respectively. Another poll by Kyodo news agency showed similar results on Saturday.
In the Nikkei survey, 36 percent of those polled said they support Noda's Democratic Party, compared with 30 percent in favor of the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), boding well for the DPJ's fortunes in the next election. In the previous survey in July, more voters supported the LDP than the ruling party.
A lower house election is not mandated until late 2013, and Noda on Friday ruled out a snap election for now.
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