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14-04-2024, 11:56 AM
“I was able to tell the U.S. Congress, the American people and the world what kind of future Japan and the United States, as global partners, are trying to create for the next generation,” Kishida told reporters in the southern U.S. state of North Carolina on Friday.
On the domestic front, however, the Kishida administration is struggling amid a high-profile slush funds scandal involving factions of his ruling Liberal Democratic Party.
Former LDP General Council chief Ryu Shionoya, who was urged to leave the party, the second-heaviest measure under its penalty system, over the scandal, asked the party Friday to review the punishment, publicly expressing his dissatisfaction with Kishida.
With many members of the public believing that the punishments are insufficient, opposition parties look certain to grill the Kishida administration at budget committee meetings at the Diet, the country’s parliament, on April 22 and 24.
Kishida’s term of office as LDP president is set to expire in September, but it remains unclear if he will be re-election party leader.
Because it is uncertain whether public support for Kishida’s cabinet will have bounced back by that time, however, a veteran LDP lawmaker said, “The prime minister will be unable to dissolve the all-important Lower House” at the end of the Diet session.
https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/politics...14-180324/
On the domestic front, however, the Kishida administration is struggling amid a high-profile slush funds scandal involving factions of his ruling Liberal Democratic Party.
Former LDP General Council chief Ryu Shionoya, who was urged to leave the party, the second-heaviest measure under its penalty system, over the scandal, asked the party Friday to review the punishment, publicly expressing his dissatisfaction with Kishida.
With many members of the public believing that the punishments are insufficient, opposition parties look certain to grill the Kishida administration at budget committee meetings at the Diet, the country’s parliament, on April 22 and 24.
Kishida’s term of office as LDP president is set to expire in September, but it remains unclear if he will be re-election party leader.
Because it is uncertain whether public support for Kishida’s cabinet will have bounced back by that time, however, a veteran LDP lawmaker said, “The prime minister will be unable to dissolve the all-important Lower House” at the end of the Diet session.
https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/politics...14-180324/
