"National Funeral Cracked" will have a long time to test "Kishida Maru"

A familiar "story" is that if the support rate of the cabinet continues to fall, the battle for the "Houshi Temple" will start in advance.

Following a funeral that is about to be held two days later, Japanese society is still trapped in the spin of the division of opinions. Although the Japanese Prime Minister Kishita Hyoshi has explained the "Abe National Funeral", many polls convey another loud voice: more than half of the people oppose the national funeral for the former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

Kishida, the owner of Nagita -cho. Two months ago, it was still a decision to hold a national funeral for the former Prime Minister who was assassinated on the street. Two months later, the changes in the situation had unexpectedly expected, the public's failure to support the "Abe's national funeral" soared, and the support rate of the cabinet plummeted. Between one liter and one drop, a national funeral without most national blessings became a hot potato.

How to bridge Japanese society and political cracks caused by "Abe's National Funeral" is a great challenge for Kishida, which has just opened the "Golden Three Years".

Japanese people protest about Abe's "national funeral". Picture source: BWORLD

The undercurrents behind the funeral surging

In Kishida's ideas, using national funeral to carry out hanging diplomacy was an excellent opportunity to show Japan. But in the eyes of many Japanese people, it is not appropriate to hold "Abe National Funeral" at this moment. First of all, Abe himself was controversial, and his funeral was promoted to "national funeral". Secondly, the national funeral costs are about 1.66 billion yen, which basically come from the tax paid by the people, which makes people who urgently need to improve their lives. Again, this move is considered lack of legal and public support. After World War II, Japan abolished the "National Funeral Order". The opponents believe that only Yoshida Mao has enjoyed the treatment of national funeral after the war. Since then, the Prime Minister will no longer follow, and "Abe's National Funeral" has created a bad "precedent".

On the other hand, the "hanging diplomacy" effect that Kishida expects seems to be a question mark. With less than three days before the funeral, it is difficult for the Japanese government to finalize the final list of overseas guests. The official house chief Matsuno Kako revealed on the 22nd that there are about 700 overseas guests, and the current and former summit total 49 people. However, Japanese media generally noticed that only the current summit of the Seventh Kingdom Group will only be US Vice President Harris and Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau. The invited former US President Barack Obama and former German Chancellor Merkel said they would not attend. What's even more embarrassing is that such "deserted" is inevitably compared with the British queen funeral that is gathered by politicians.

Harris will represent the United States to attend Abe's funeral, but the British funeral will be Biden. Picture source: AFP

An increasingly distinctive social consensus is that there are too many issues that are more noteworthy than such a controversial funeral at present: how to cope with economic challenges such as increasingly serious inflation? How to get out of the "storm eye" of the global new crown epidemic? How to reshape the people's confidence in the country after the "unified church" storm? ...

Facing the undercurrent surging, Kishida is not without sense of crisis. He emphasized his "listening power" on many occasions, saying that "we must listen carefully to the voice of the people." But around national funerals, he didn't seem to hear the voices of most citizens. At a rally against state funeral in Tokyo, a 71 -year -old Japanese citizen who came from Nagano said: "It is good to destroy democraticism and the Kishida government who does not listen to the voices of the citizens, which makes people deeply angry . Money should be used to protect young people's lives, not national funeral. "

The support rate is close to the "dangerous waters"

In the face of increasingly raging public opinion, "Abe's National Funeral" has also become a vane of different political opinions. Many local parliaments in Japan have recently passed the opinions and resolutions that oppose the "Abe National Funeral". The largest Democratic Party in the Wild Party clearly stated that he would be absent from the funeral. Former Prime Minister Naoto Naoto and Hatoyama Yuki also made the same decision after receiving the invitation. What's even more rare is that there are also opposition voices in the Liberal Democratic Party: the former administrative reform of the administrative reform, Yoshimura Koshirito, said in an interview with the Kyodo News Agency that "more than 60 % of the people opposed national funerals" and therefore refused to participate in the funeral.

Mountain rain comes. In Nagita -cho, the sound of disbanding the House of Representatives began -this can usually help boost the support rate in the short term. However, some analysts bluntly said, "The Lights of Life and Death of Kishida Cabinet may have begun to flash." People began to pay attention to the long -term popular "Aoki Rules" in Japanese politics. This observation indicator was proposed by the former head of the official house Aoi Qianxiong many years ago, and was considered to have explanations to Japanese politics. "If the cabinet's support rate and the Liberal Democratic Party do not exceed 50%of the total, the political crisis will occur."

Kishida flew to New York a few days ago to participate in the United University. Picture source: twitter

Many polls show that the support rate of Kishida Cabinet is close to 30 % of the "dangerous waters". When he first came to power, Kishida once brought some expectations to the people, but later his series of choices still did not get rid of the "predecessor's frame". Kishida may want to borrow Abe's light to consolidate the foundation of governance, but forget that what people need more need is not the "unchanged" symbolized by the "Abe heir", but a truly leading them to get out of the dilemma in the change situation. Leader.

After Kishida led the Liberal Democratic Party to win the elections of the two hospitals, Japan will not hold a large state -of -state election in the next three years. Public opinion has previously believed that this will be his "golden three years".But a familiar "story" is that if the support rate of the cabinet continues to fall, the battle for the "Houshi Temple" will start in advance.Regardless of the public opinion, "Abe's National Funeral", even the flood behind it?For the Kishida, which is known as "Mr. Stability", this "courage" is exchanged. I do n’t know if it is his long -awaited "Golden Three Years", or the final chapter.Produced deep -sea district studio

Written Wu Yuzhen

Editor Shen Haimo

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