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Sat, 09/03/2011 - 16:08
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Support rate for new Cabinet of Noda comes to 62.8%
TOKYO, Sept. 3 Kyodo -
The initial support rate for the Cabinet of new Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda stands at 62.8 percent, a Kyodo News poll showed Saturday, compared with 15.8 percent for the Cabinet of his predecessor Naoto Kan in late August.
In a telephone poll conducted Friday and Saturday, the respondents were divided over a possible hike in the consumption tax, with 49.7 percent saying they favor or generally favor the idea, against 47.0 percent who are opposed or generally opposed to it.
Noda, who became Japan's new prime minister on Friday, is seen as a supporter of tax hikes to combat Japan's ballooning debt, currently twice the size of the country's gross domestic product, and to finance huge costs for the reconstruction of areas in northeastern Japan devastated by March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
The survey showed 58.7 percent of respondents approve or generally approve provisionally raising some taxes to secure funds for disaster reconstruction, versus 38.3 percent who are opposed or generally opposed to such tax hikes.
The respondents were also split over the appointment of Azuma Koshiishi, a close ally of party power broker Ichiro Ozawa, to the ruling Democratic Party of Japan's No. 2 post of secretary general, with 45.1 percent in favor of it and 41.2 percent opposed to it.
Noda picked Koshiishi in an apparent effort to head off a rift between party members who are close to or distant from Ozawa and restore a party unity.
The survey found that 77.3 percent want the DPJ to keep intact the suspension of Ozawa's party membership, which was imposed earlier this year following the DPJ heavyweight's indictment over a political funds scandal, while 15.9 percent responded that the suspension should be lifted.
On a possible grand coalition between the DPJ and main opposition Liberal Democratic Party, 40.1 percent responded that they support the move, compared with 46.5 percent who were opposed to it.
By political party, the DPJ was supported by 27.2 percent while the LDP garnered the approval of 23.6 percent.
The initial support rate for the Cabinet of new Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda stands at 62.8 percent, a Kyodo News poll showed Saturday, compared with 15.8 percent for the Cabinet of his predecessor Naoto Kan in late August.
In a telephone poll conducted Friday and Saturday, the respondents were divided over a possible hike in the consumption tax, with 49.7 percent saying they favor or generally favor the idea, against 47.0 percent who are opposed or generally opposed to it.
Noda, who became Japan's new prime minister on Friday, is seen as a supporter of tax hikes to combat Japan's ballooning debt, currently twice the size of the country's gross domestic product, and to finance huge costs for the reconstruction of areas in northeastern Japan devastated by March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
The survey showed 58.7 percent of respondents approve or generally approve provisionally raising some taxes to secure funds for disaster reconstruction, versus 38.3 percent who are opposed or generally opposed to such tax hikes.
The respondents were also split over the appointment of Azuma Koshiishi, a close ally of party power broker Ichiro Ozawa, to the ruling Democratic Party of Japan's No. 2 post of secretary general, with 45.1 percent in favor of it and 41.2 percent opposed to it.
Noda picked Koshiishi in an apparent effort to head off a rift between party members who are close to or distant from Ozawa and restore a party unity.
The survey found that 77.3 percent want the DPJ to keep intact the suspension of Ozawa's party membership, which was imposed earlier this year following the DPJ heavyweight's indictment over a political funds scandal, while 15.9 percent responded that the suspension should be lifted.
On a possible grand coalition between the DPJ and main opposition Liberal Democratic Party, 40.1 percent responded that they support the move, compared with 46.5 percent who were opposed to it.
By political party, the DPJ was supported by 27.2 percent while the LDP garnered the approval of 23.6 percent.
