Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi may reshuffle his Cabinet in the fall if he is re-elected LDP president in September, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda indicated Monday.
Fukuda was commenting on media reports that Koizumi plans to reshuffle the Cabinet in the immediate wake of the Liberal Democratic Party poll -- as a gesture of compromise toward LDP lawmakers who oppose his economic policies.
"The Koizumi Cabinet has served for more than two years now, and usually one would expect that there will be one or two more Cabinet reshuffles," Fukuda told a news conference.