TOKYO (Reuters) – Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was asked about the possibility of dissolving the House of Representatives by the end of the year at a press conference after visiting Ise Jingu (Ise City, Mie Prefecture) on the 4th Considering the timetable, it could be a matter of possibility.” As for the timing, he refrained from saying, “In any case, the Prime Minister at the time will judge the annulment general election as a unique matter.”
Prime Minister Kishida said in a television program late last year that a general election could be held to dissolve the House of Representatives before implementing the defense tax hike.
In a press conference, the prime minister drew attention to the fact that the term of office of the current members of the House of Representatives will end in October 2025, and that a lower house election could be held at any time before that. On the other hand, he said that tax measures to ensure defense spending will be implemented at an appropriate time after 2024, and explained that it is possible that the lower house election will be held before the tax increase due to the timetable .
In the second half of last year, public opinion was divided on the pros and cons of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s state funeral. Support declined rapidly.
Ahead of the convocation of the Diet’s regular session later this month, Prime Minister Kishida said he would tackle issues that cannot be deferred to future generations head-on and provide solutions one by one. As a matter of priority, we will activate a new virtuous circle in the Japanese economy, take up the challenge of resisting the decline in the birth rate, and play a leading role in world peace and prosperity as the chair of the G7 countries and as a group that is not permanently. member of the United Nations Security Council I raised three things that I will achieve.
In May, the Prime Minister will host the G7 Summit in Hiroshima Prefecture, which is his hometown. Prime Minister Abe announced that he will visit France, Italy, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States from the 9th. I would like to reaffirm our close cooperation by showing it to
The prime minister emphasized that the administration’s flagship policy, “new capitalism,” was a prescription for the Japanese economy to take a new direction. “We will firmly promote both distributions of wage increases and investment, and build a foundation for sustainable and strong growth with little difference,” he said.
“For the past 30 years, although corporate profits have increased, wages have not increased as much as expected, and the expected trickle down did not occur,” Abe said. In order to create a structure that allows wages to grow every year, he asked for a labor strike this spring “a wage increase that is higher than the inflation rate.”
(Kentaro Sugiyama)
