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Ruling parties agree to hold extra Diet session Oct. 23-Nov. 30+
TOKYO, Oct. 14 Kyodo - The ruling Democratic Party of Japan and its two junior coalition partners agreed Wednesday to call an extraordinary parliamentary session on Oct. 23 to run for 39 days through Nov. 30, coalition lawmakers said.
The DPJ, the Social Democratic Party and the People's New Party plan to propose
the schedule, agreed at a meeting of their Diet affairs chiefs, to the
opposition camp Thursday, the lawmakers said.
The Diet affairs chiefs also confirmed that the coalition government would
submit about 10 bills to the Diet, including one to freeze the government's
planned sale of Japan Post shares and another aimed at supporting small firms
financially, likely with a conditional moratorium on debt repayments.
''The opposition camp proposed to the prime minister's office that the extra
session be called early,'' DPJ Diet affairs chief Kenji Yamaoka told reporters
after the meeting. ''With that in mind, we want to open the session three days
earlier (than originally planned).''
Ordinarily the prime minister delivers a policy speech to both houses of the
Diet soon after an extra session opens and answers questions from both ruling
and opposition parties for the next several days.
It will be Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's first such speech as premier since
he assumed office Sept. 16.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirofumi Hirano said Wednesday that his side had asked
for the schedule to be worked out so that the session could be called after the
Oct. 25 House of Councillors by-elections in Kanagawa and Shizuoka prefectures.
''We have said that around the 26th would be desirable, but because adjustments
are being made, we are watching them,'' Hirano said at a news conference.
Another concern over opening the session on Oct. 23 is that it could conflict
with Hatoyama's planned trip to Thailand over the weekend to attend an annual
meeting related to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations known as the
''ASEAN Plus Three.''
On Wednesday evening, Hatoyama voiced that concern himself, telling reporters,
''I have a desire to see (the Diet session) scheduled in such a way as to avoid
interfering with ASEAN Plus Three, which is a very important meeting.''
The DPJ won a landslide victory in the House of Representatives election in
late August, trouncing the Liberal Democratic Party, which had ruled Japan
almost continuously for the past 54 years.
==Kyodo
2009-10-14 23:02:04
The DPJ, the Social Democratic Party and the People's New Party plan to propose
the schedule, agreed at a meeting of their Diet affairs chiefs, to the
opposition camp Thursday, the lawmakers said.
The Diet affairs chiefs also confirmed that the coalition government would
submit about 10 bills to the Diet, including one to freeze the government's
planned sale of Japan Post shares and another aimed at supporting small firms
financially, likely with a conditional moratorium on debt repayments.
''The opposition camp proposed to the prime minister's office that the extra
session be called early,'' DPJ Diet affairs chief Kenji Yamaoka told reporters
after the meeting. ''With that in mind, we want to open the session three days
earlier (than originally planned).''
Ordinarily the prime minister delivers a policy speech to both houses of the
Diet soon after an extra session opens and answers questions from both ruling
and opposition parties for the next several days.
It will be Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's first such speech as premier since
he assumed office Sept. 16.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirofumi Hirano said Wednesday that his side had asked
for the schedule to be worked out so that the session could be called after the
Oct. 25 House of Councillors by-elections in Kanagawa and Shizuoka prefectures.
''We have said that around the 26th would be desirable, but because adjustments
are being made, we are watching them,'' Hirano said at a news conference.
Another concern over opening the session on Oct. 23 is that it could conflict
with Hatoyama's planned trip to Thailand over the weekend to attend an annual
meeting related to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations known as the
''ASEAN Plus Three.''
On Wednesday evening, Hatoyama voiced that concern himself, telling reporters,
''I have a desire to see (the Diet session) scheduled in such a way as to avoid
interfering with ASEAN Plus Three, which is a very important meeting.''
The DPJ won a landslide victory in the House of Representatives election in
late August, trouncing the Liberal Democratic Party, which had ruled Japan
almost continuously for the past 54 years.
==Kyodo
2009-10-14 23:02:04
