The support rate for the Cabinet under Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda dropped to 35.3 percent while the disapproval rate went up to 47.6 percent, a national opinion poll showed Sunday.
It is the first time the disapproval rating has surpassed the approval rating since Fukuda became premier in September. The decline of support rate was believed to be connected with scandals involving the Defense Ministry and the government's failure to resolve pension-record blunders.
According to the survey conducted by Kyodo News over the weekend, the approval rate fell 11.7 percentage points from a month ago while the disapproval rate was up 11.0 points.
On the resumption of refueling mission in the Indian Ocean for the U.S.-led antiterrorism operations, 46.7 percent of the 1,033 respondents in households with eligible voters said they were against a bill which allows such operations, compared with 38.8 percent who supported it. The issue has been a major source of debate between the ruling camp and the oppositions led by the Democratic Party of Japan.
The poll also found that 44.7 percent of interviewees said they would prefer a government led by the Democratic Party of Japan, compared with 28.5 percent who chose an LDP-led administration.
Source:Xinhua
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