(RTTNews) - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan says that his Cabinet will resign en masse next Tuesday, a day after the ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) elects his successor.
The country's media reported on Tuesday that the beleaguered leader told his colleagues at an informal Cabinet meeting to be prepared to step down because things will proceed as planned if there are no special changes in the political situation.
He reportedly said that Vice-Ministers and parliamentary secretaries of each Ministry should hand over their duties from the viewpoint of managing and overseeing their offices.
"I will quit after all three conditions (for my resignation) are in place," Japan's Kyodo news agency quoted Kan as telling his Cabinet Ministers on Tuesday. "I believe a new Prime Minister will be decided on August 30," he added.
Under mounting public wrath over the Fukushima nuclear crisis, Kan had set parliamentary approval of three bills that are key in post-quake reconstruction efforts as a condition to quit.
Japan's Diet enacted a second extra quake relief budget in July. A bill on the government issuing deficit-covering bonds is expected to be approved on Wednesday, while the Lower House unanimously passed a bill on renewable energy on Tuesday.
The bill is expected to pass in the Opposition-dominated Upper House possibly by Friday, as DPJ agreed with the main Opposition Liberal Democratic Party to ensure that the Parliament passes by August 26 the two remaining bills vital to lay the groundwork for Kan's resignation.
Kan has already made it clear that he was ready to quit after the party's new leader was elected, which is scheduled for August 29.
Kan's government has been getting flak over the slow and clumsy response to the March 11 earthquake-tsunami that wrecked the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant forcing several thousands to leave their homes and surroundings because of radiation. The natural disaster had left some 15,700 people dead and 4,600 missing.
The rating of Kan's Cabinet has fallen to 15.8 per cent, the lowest since he took office in June 2010, according to a poll result released on Sunday.
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