On the 18th, the Diet will hold intensive deliberations at the Budget Committee of the House of Representatives, which is deliberating the budget for the new fiscal year.
While the ruling party wants to pass the budget bill to the lower house on the 21st of next week, the opposition party has not exhausted the deliberation on measures such as the new corona measures, and claims that the vote is premature. The bargaining continues.
On the 18th, Prime Minister Kishida and others attended the Budget Committee of the House of Representatives, which is deliberating the budget plan for the new fiscal year = Reiwa 4, on the themes of socio-economic conditions and diplomacy, and this is the fourth intensive deliberation in the current Diet session. Will be done.
Among these, in addition to border measures that the government plans to gradually ease from next month, new corona measures such as the progress of the third vaccination, and measures to deal with the ongoing tension in Ukraine. It is expected that there will be a debate.
On the other hand, regarding the deliberation schedule of the budget bill, the ruling party has held intensive deliberation at the request of the opposition party, and it was approved by the committee on the 21st of next week, saying that sufficient deliberation has been accumulated. , I want to pass the House of Representatives that day.
On the other hand, the opposition party argued that the decision was premature because many issues remained in the measures against the new corona, and the issue that the director of the National Security Agency was virtually removed was not exhausted. The ruling and opposition parties are still bargaining over the voting schedule.