Earlier this month, Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori announced that the date for electing the next president of his ruling Liberal Democratic Party would be moved up. This was tantamount to him expressing his intention to resign.
Since then, the party has been thrown into chaos over when and how it will elect its next president and, above all, who will succeed Mori.
The prime minister still says that he will do his best during the remainder of his tenure, but the people no longer pay attention to what he says or does. Indeed, they do not expect anything from the prime minister, even though he says politicians must always work for the good of the nation and must not waste a single day.