Beat Takeshi: “I think they’re just going to take a wait-and-see attitude and get out, or they’re just going to sell their name…” to the Restoration Association, which has formed a coalition with the Liberal Democratic Party.

　Beat Takeshi (78) appeared on TV Asahi’s “Beat Takeshi’s TV Tackle” (Sunday noon) on March 26. He spoke about his impressions of the coalition between the LDP and the Japan Restoration Association and the Takaichi administration. Prime Minister Takashi Takaichi delivered his first policy speech. The coalition with the Japan Restoration Association (JRA), the minority ruling party in both the House of Representatives and the House of Councillors, has formed a cabinet and started the Takaichi administration. At the beginning of the program, Takeshi commented on the coalition between the Liberal Democratic Party and the Restoration Association, saying, “This time, even though they have joined forces with the Restoration Association, no one from the Restoration Association holds an important post in the cabinet or anything. He continued, “I keep thinking that they are going to drop out just to see how things go, or that they are just trying to sell their name.