While speculation is swirling as to whether Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida will retain his portfolio amid a recent buzz that he wishes to relinquish his post and make a future challenge for the premiership, and if Defense Minister Tomomi Inada will be replaced, political watchers have pointed out that one think is certain, there are growing numbers of dissatisfied lawmakers within the rank and file of the LDP.
"Mr. Kishida was obedient to Mr. Abe, but some young politicians in his faction have been dissatisfied with the situation. Their voices are getting louder now," said Uchiyama.
Other analysts believed that Kishida may encourage aides within his party faction, which differs to that of Abe, to step up to Cabinet positions, so they will be able to further leverage the party from the inside and from the top in the future.
Further clouding the outlook for the Abe-led administration was the pummeling the LDP took in the recent Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly election -- widely seen as a barometer of the future direction of national politics -- by Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike's newly-formed Tomin First no Kai (Tokyoites First party).
The heavy defeat for the LDP, scandals aside, which also factored into the slumping support rate, was owing to the majority of citizens here opposing the autocratic fashion in which controversial legislation has been repeatedly forced through parliament and into law, the most recent example being the contentious conspiracy law, and also, more pertinently, a rejection of Abe's plans to revise Japan's pacifist constitution, experts said.
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