Main opposition ahead of Japan vote
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Twenty-five percent said they would vote for the Liberal Democratic Party in the 16th
December ballot, while Noda's ruling Democratic Party of Japan was
endorsed by 16 percent, a poll published by the Nikkei business daily
showed.
Asked
who would make the best prime minister, 37 percent said LDP leader
Shinzo Abe, down three points from last month's poll, with Noda up seven
points at 25 percent.
Noda's surprise move last week to call an election could be behind the bump in his popularity, the paper said.
Noda is Japan's sixth prime minister in as many years and the third since the DPJ came to power in 2009.
He
had been under pressure for months to call elections amid tensions with
China, a slow post-tsunami recovery and a plodding economy.
Another
poll by the liberal Asahi Shimbun newspaper said 22 percent of voters
would choose the LDP in the proportional representation part of the
ballot -- which accounts for 180 of the total 480 seats in the lower
house -- against 15 percent for the DPJ.
Voters
in all 300 constituencies will cast two ballots in next month's poll:
one for a named candidate to be their parliamentary representative and
one for a party.
These
party votes are tallied across 11 regional blocs, with seats being
awarded to each grouping according to the percentage of ballots they
receive.
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