But with his popularity plummeting - under 20 percent in recent opinion polls - and deep divisions in his Liberal Democratic Party, doubts remained over Mori's ability to lead the nation.

由于森喜朗的民意大幅下滑，最近几次的民调均显示森喜朗的支持度不到两成，再加上自民党内发生严重分歧，因此民众对森喜朗领导国家的能力仍有怀疑。

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With Congo's economy in tatters, its government near-bankrupt and his popularity plummeting, the young president needs a victory.

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Mr Mahuad, his popularity plummeting, belatedly called for the change to be suspended until a mechanism for compensating the poor, hardest hit by it, was found.

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Democrats divided during the rest of his presidency, and his plummeting popularity opened the door to Ronald Reagan's victory in 1980.

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