Proving a criminal conspiracy between them and the group s treasurer to not report excess income from fundraising parties has been deemed too difficult by investigators.
Some 61.6% of poll respondents were also dissatisfied with Kishida s handling of the aftermath of a magnitude-7.6 earthquake that struck the Noto Peninsula on New Year s Day.
Once led by the late Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the LDP s largest faction is accused of failing to report hundreds of millions of yen from fundraisers.