From the 26th, the Diet will hold a substantive deliberation on the supplementary budget for this year at the Budget Committee of the House of Representatives.
Since it will be the stage for the debate in the final stage of the Diet, it is expected that the confrontation between the ruling and opposition parties will intensify toward the Upper House election.
This year's supplementary budget for implementing emergency measures against rising prices was deliberated in the Diet on the 25th, and Prime Minister Kishida and all ministers attended the Budget Committee of the House of Representatives on the 26th and 27th. Then, substantive deliberation is carried out.
Opposition parties say that the supplementary budget is not only inadequate in content and scale, but it is also a problem to add up reserve funds that are not decided in advance with the supplementary budget, while the ruling party prepares for unforeseen circumstances. It is said that it is necessary for early establishment.
At the deliberation on the 26th, Prime Minister Kishida announced a policy to increase defense spending at the Japan-US summit meeting, measures against the new corona, and the chairman of the House of Representatives Hosoda reported suspicion of sexual harassment to female reporters. It is expected that there will be a debate.
With the end of the session coming up on the 15th of next month, it will be the stage for the final debate in the Diet, so it is expected that the confrontation between the ruling and opposition parties will intensify toward the Upper House election.