Public support for the Cabinet of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba stood at 28.0%, the lowest starting approval rate for any administration since 2000, a Jiji Press monthly opinion poll showed Thursday.
The figure is higher than the approval rate of 18.7% for former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's Cabinet in September but below the key threshold of 30%. An administration with less than 30% public support is said to be in the "danger zone."
The starting approval rate for the Kishida Cabinet was 40.3%, while that for the Cabinet of his predecessor, Yoshihide Suga, was 51.2%. The Cabinet of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who served in the top post before Suga, had a starting approval rate of 54.0%.
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