LDP, CDP Execs Agree to Extend Diet Session to Dec. 24

   Tokyo, Dec. 17 (Jiji Press)--Senior members of Japan's ruling and main opposition parties on Tuesday agreed on the need to extend the ongoing extraordinary session of the Diet, the country's parliament, for three days until Dec. 24.
   The agreement was reached at a meeting between Junichi Ishii, Diet affairs chief of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party in the House of Councillors, the upper parliamentary chamber, and his counterpart from the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, Yoshitaka Saito.
   After the meeting, Ishii told reporters that it is necessary for the Upper House to secure a certain amount of time for deliberations on three political reform-related bills likely to be approved by the House of Representatives, the lower chamber, on Tuesday.
   "We will inform the Diet affairs heads of the ruling and opposition parties in the Lower House" about the extension of the extraordinary session, which is currently scheduled to end Saturday, he said.

(2024/12/17-15:33)

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