The Liberal Democratic Party and the Komeito Party are aiming for an agreement in August, considering that the House of Representatives election will be held by autumn over the revision of the law that will allow the reimbursement of the annual expenses of members of the Diet who lost their jobs due to conviction The policy is to hurry to consider the amount of refund.
The Komeito Party has put together the outline of the bill regarding the annual expenses of members of the Diet who have lost their jobs due to convictions, but it was not submitted in the previous ordinary session of the Diet due to cautious opinions within the Liberal Democratic Party.
For this reason, the Liberal Democratic Party and the Komeito Party set up a new working team to amend the law and held their first meeting on the 29th to begin discussions.
At the first meeting, the Komeito explained the outline of the bill, which required the refund of 40% of the annual expenses paid if the election became invalid, but the Liberal Democratic Party also understood the necessity of amending the law. Was shown.
Then, based on the fact that the House of Representatives election will be held by autumn, aiming for an agreement by the end of August, we will consider the consistency with the Constitution, which stipulates the annual expenses of members of the Diet, as well as the specific way and amount of refund. I confirmed the policy to hurry.