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Special parliamentary session to be held July 30
TOKYO, July 13 Kyodo -
Japan's ruling bloc has decided to convene a special Diet session on July 30 to
fill posts needed for parliamentary deliberations following the upper house
election over the weekend, senior lawmakers said Tuesday.
The special session will mainly be intended to complete necessary formalities
after a national election, such as in this case selecting a House of
Councillors president and heads of standing committees, said the lawmakers of
the Democratic Party of Japan.
The government and the DPJ are planning to hold the session for about a week,
the lawmakers said, adding that they are considering convening a separate
extraordinary Diet session for serious debate over key issues in the fall.
As the ruling coalition failed to maintain a majority in the upper house
following its serious setback in the election on Sunday, the lawmakers said the
DPJ wants to wait to hold the next Diet session until the party's leadership
election in September and find more ways to cooperate with parties from the
opposition camp.
But opposition parties so far show strong reluctance to work with the DPJ.
Amid signs of rising tension between the opposition camp and the DPJ, the
Liberal Democratic Party and Your Party, which both increased their seats in
the latest election, have started to urge that the new chairman of the upper
house be picked from their side.
Currently, Satsuki Eda, a DPJ lawmaker, serves as House of Councillors president.
Your Party leader Yoshimi Watanabe especially is demanding that Eda be replaced
with someone from the opposition bloc.
In a related development, the LDP, which performed better than the DPJ in the
election, is planning to name Yoshimasa Hayashi as chairman of the party's
upper house caucus, replacing Hidehisa Otsuji, whose term will expire in
August, a senior LDP lawmaker said.
Hayashi served as defense minister, as well as state minister in charge of
economic and fiscal policy, prior to the change of government last summer.
The 49-year-old Hayashi, elected three times in the upper house, is widely seen
as one of the up-and-coming leaders in the main opposition party.
By appointing Hayashi to the post, the LDP will try to bring in young blood to
the party's leadership and enhance its influence in the chamber, the lawmaker
said.
==Kyodo
Japan's ruling bloc has decided to convene a special Diet session on July 30 to
fill posts needed for parliamentary deliberations following the upper house
election over the weekend, senior lawmakers said Tuesday.
The special session will mainly be intended to complete necessary formalities
after a national election, such as in this case selecting a House of
Councillors president and heads of standing committees, said the lawmakers of
the Democratic Party of Japan.
The government and the DPJ are planning to hold the session for about a week,
the lawmakers said, adding that they are considering convening a separate
extraordinary Diet session for serious debate over key issues in the fall.
As the ruling coalition failed to maintain a majority in the upper house
following its serious setback in the election on Sunday, the lawmakers said the
DPJ wants to wait to hold the next Diet session until the party's leadership
election in September and find more ways to cooperate with parties from the
opposition camp.
But opposition parties so far show strong reluctance to work with the DPJ.
Amid signs of rising tension between the opposition camp and the DPJ, the
Liberal Democratic Party and Your Party, which both increased their seats in
the latest election, have started to urge that the new chairman of the upper
house be picked from their side.
Currently, Satsuki Eda, a DPJ lawmaker, serves as House of Councillors president.
Your Party leader Yoshimi Watanabe especially is demanding that Eda be replaced
with someone from the opposition bloc.
In a related development, the LDP, which performed better than the DPJ in the
election, is planning to name Yoshimasa Hayashi as chairman of the party's
upper house caucus, replacing Hidehisa Otsuji, whose term will expire in
August, a senior LDP lawmaker said.
Hayashi served as defense minister, as well as state minister in charge of
economic and fiscal policy, prior to the change of government last summer.
The 49-year-old Hayashi, elected three times in the upper house, is widely seen
as one of the up-and-coming leaders in the main opposition party.
By appointing Hayashi to the post, the LDP will try to bring in young blood to
the party's leadership and enhance its influence in the chamber, the lawmaker
said.
==Kyodo
