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February 6-12, 2021
It was a week influenced by the departure of Yoshiro Mori, president of the Tokyo Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. At the House Budget Committee on the 8th, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga did not make “decisions by the organizing committee” on the advancement and withdrawal of Mr. Mori. The Prime Minister is in a position to advise the Organizing Committee as the highest adviser. However, although criticism of Mori’s disdain for women increased at home and abroad, he did not take the initiative to create confusion, leaving the image of “insufficient coordination.”
The scene Mr. Mori is involved in is remembered in July 2015 when then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe withdrew the plan to build the new national stadium. Mr Mori, who wanted to host the 19th Rugby World Cup at the New National Stadium, was concerned about the delay in completion and resisted the revision of the plan.
Abe persuaded Mori, who is also a senior from the Hosoda faction, a faction of the PLD, to lead the leadership. The political decisions were well received by the public opinion and the approval rating of the Cabinet recovered, which plummeted due to the forced deliberation of bills related to security in the Diet.
If Prime Minister Suga urged Mori to resign early this time and wielded the power of adjustment to eliminate confusion, it may have led to the recovery of the cabinet approval rating, which was slow in response to the new crown. However, it appears that the prime minister, who is not a faction and has a weak internal party base, was unable to make a “political decision” to bow to Mr. Mori, who has great influence in the Hosoda faction, the largest faction. (Kazuki Murakami)
Prime Minister Suga responding to the plenary session of the House of Representatives
