More than 60 percent of people want Ichiro Ozawa to resign as head of the Democratic Party of Japan over the fundraising scandal that led to the arrest of his chief secretary, a poll showed Sunday.

In a telephone survey conducted Saturday and Sunday by Kyodo News, 61.1 percent of the respondents said Ozawa should quit as DPJ leader, while 28.9 percent said he should stay on.

The poll also found that the support rate for the Cabinet of Prime Minister Taro Aso increased to 16.0 percent, edging 2.6 percentage points higher than in the previous poll Feb. 17 to 18. The disapproval rate was down 5.8 points to 70.8 percent.