Following last month's House of Councilors election, an extraordinary session of the Diet is expected to be convened on the 3rd, and a new Speaker of the House of Councilors will be elected.
The 209th extraordinary session of the Diet, which will be the first session of the Diet after last month's House of Councilors election, will be convened on the 3rd.
At the plenary session of the House of Councilors in the morning, Hidehisa Otsuji, former vice chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party, and Hiroyuki Nagahama, former Minister of the Environment, of the Constitutional Democratic Party, are expected to be elected as the new chairmen.
In addition, as a result of deliberations between the ruling and opposition parties, 17 positions were assigned to the Liberal Democratic Party, 4 positions to the Constitutional Democratic Party, and 3 positions to each of the New Komeito Party and the Japan Innovation Party. , We have agreed to assign, and this personnel will be officially decided on the 3rd.
In the afternoon, the opening ceremony will be held with the presence of His Majesty the Emperor.
The extraordinary session of the Diet is expected to last for three days until the 5th.
After the extraordinary Diet session, the ruling and opposition parties have agreed to discuss former Prime Minister Abe's "state funeral" during the closing examination, and will proceed with adjusting the schedule in the future.