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Kishida said a series of scandals has “breached” the public’s trust, and the party needs to demonstrate its commitment to change. He said, “the most obvious first step is for me to bow out.”
Why is Kishida stepping down? A series of local election losses earlier this year sparked calls within his party to have a new face to boost support before the next national election. Kishida said a series of scandals has “breached” the public’s trust, and the party needs to demonstrate its commitment to change.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has announced he will step down next month and will not run for a second term as leader of the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party, following a series of ...
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Tuesday his governing party's major defeat in last weekend's by-elections was largely due to a political fundraising scandal and that he would not step ...
The Kishida government was further damaged by the party-wide slush fund corruption scandal in late 2023, which saw his approval rate drop to 23% as of 13 December 2023, the lowest such rating any prime minister had had since the LDP returned to power in 2012. [7] By 22 December, Kishida's approval rate had further declined to 17%. [8]
On 15 April 2023, a pipe bomb exploded near Fumio Kishida, the then-prime minister of Japan, who came to the fishing port of Saikazaki, Wakayama, Wakayama Prefecture, in the Kansai region to give a campaign stump speech for the 2023 Wakayama 1st district by-election. Just before Kishida was to give a stump speech, a man threw a pipe bomb.
On 14 August, Fumio Kishida announced that he would not seek a second term as President of the Liberal Democratic Party. [59] This effectively made the race an "open field" for new candidates. [60] Kishida was reportedly pressured by influential members of the party, such as Taro Aso, Masahito Moriyama and Yoshimasa Hayashi to not seek a second ...
Kishida's decision to quit triggers a contest to replace him as president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), and by extension as the leader of the world's fourth-biggest economy. And ...