Seventy-two percent of voters said dissolution of factions in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party will not restore public trust in politics, compared with 19 percent who said it will, an Asahi Shimbun survey showed.
Prosecutors plan to charge former accounting officials at two factions in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party over political fund reports that failed to list money gained through fund-raising parties, sources said.
The kickback scandal involving the fundraising parties of the Abe faction, the largest faction of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), has become a major problem that is shaking the foundations of the Kishida regime in Japan.
The Abe faction in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party returned all of the money collected by Upper House members for tickets to fund-raising parties when they were up for re-election, investigative sources said.
Investigators searched the offices of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s Abe and Nikai factions on Dec. 19 over suspicions they failed to report large amounts of revenues gained from their fund-raising parties.