Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba fell asleep during the parliamentary vote during which he was re-elected to the said post by a simple majority, according to images of the session collected by local media and which went viral on the networks.
As Japanese parliamentarians voted on who would be responsible for administering Japan in the new legislature, Ishiba appeared with his head bowed and his eyes closed in a video captured by national broadcaster Nippon Television and which became a trend on the Internet. Asian platform.
Sitting in the room next to the spokesperson for the Executive, Yoshimasa Hayashi, and the Minister of Finance, Katsunobu Kato, the Japanese Prime Minister slept while waiting for the results, which did not arrive until the second round of voting.
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“I want him to resign”, “I can’t take it anymore” or “What a shame” were other comments from Japanese citizens on the aforementioned social network.
One netizen said: “It’s something unprecedented that the new Prime Minister, elected to the Diet, is sleeping so much. If you are not healthy enough to take on much responsibility, I recommend that you resign to devote yourself to treatment.
Japanese netizens also commented on the attitude with which Hayashi and Taro Aso, both party colleagues of the Prime Minister, appear in the Nippon Television images.
“Aso makes a gesture of disbelief. Why doesn’t Hayashi wake him up?” a citizen commented.
Ishiba, who won today’s Lower House vote as prime minister with a simple majority, faces another uncertain mandate with his government partner, the Buddhist Komeito Party, in the weakest position ever. ‘a Japanese leader has experienced over the past three decades. .
The president assumed the post of Prime Minister of Japan on October 1 after winning the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) primaries and calling early general elections for October 27, a move with which he hoped to once again ensure the domination of the formation which has governed almost without interruption since 1955.
However, popular discontent with inflation and economic stagnation as well as illicit funds scandals led to a significant electoral decline, with the PLD and Komeito failing to maintain the absolute parliamentary majority that they held together before the elections.
