He prime minister JapaneseShigeru Ishibastayed apparently asleep this Monday during the parliamentary vote in which it was re-elected for said position by simple majority, as shown in images of the session collected by local media and that have gone viral on the networks.
While the Japanese parliamentarians voted who would be in charge to manage Japan in the new legislature, Ishiba appears head down and eyes closed in a video captured by the national television network Nippon Television and that became a trend on platform X in the Asian country.
Sitting in the chamber next to the spokesperson for the Executive, Yoshimasa Hayashi, and the Minister of Finance, Katsunobu Kato, the Japanese Prime Minister I slept waiting for the resultswhich did not arrive until a second round of voting was held. The popular Japanese actress Tomoko Mariya spoke like this on her
“I want him to resign”, “I can’t take it anymore” or “What a shame” were other comments by Japanese citizens on the aforementioned social network. One user expressed: “It is something unprecedented that the new prime minister sleeps so much. If you are not healthy enough to bear a great responsibility, I recommend that you resign to dedicate yourself to treatment.”
A new and uncertain mandate
Japanese Internet users also commented on the attitude with which Hayashi and Taro Aso, baron of the LDP, appear in the Nippon Television images. “Aso is with a gesture of disbelief. Why doesn’t Hayashi wake him up?” commented a citizen.
Ishiba, who won this Monday’s vote in the Lower House as prime minister with a simple majority, faces a new and uncertain mandate together with his government partner, the Komeito Buddhist party, in the weakest position that a Japanese leader has had in the last three decades.
The president He took office as Prime Minister of Japan on October 1. after winning the primaries of the Liberal Democratic Party (PLD) and called early general elections for October 27, a decision with which he hoped to once again ensure the dominance of the party that has governed almost uninterruptedly since 1955.
However, the discontent of the population over the inflation and economic stagnation and the illicit funds scandals led to a significant electoral decline as the PLD and the Komeito failed to maintain the absolute parliamentary majority they held together before the elections.
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