A majority of Japanese firms want Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga to lose office after a general election that must be held this year due to apparent frustration with a lack of leadership over COVID-19 and its economic fallout, a Reuters poll showed.
The Reuters Corporate Survey shows the Olympics did not help keep support for Suga from sliding below a make-or-break 30% threshold in some domestic media polls, clouding the fate of his administration. In the survey, 58% of firms said they do not want Suga to stay in power.
"I cannot hold expectations for the opposition but at least the Suga administration should change," a manager of an information service firm wrote in the survey.