Support for Japan’s Suga Hits New Low After Emergency Extended
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Yoshihide Suga
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Support for Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga slipped to its lowest since he took office about eight months ago in a poll conducted after he extended a state of emergency to try to control rising coronavirus infections.
The survey released Monday by broadcaster JNN found 40% of respondents said they supported Suga, down 4.4 percentage points from a month earlier. Asked whether they approved of his government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, 63% said they did not, a 13 percentage point increase.