In response to the decision to implement comprehensive economic measures to deal with rising prices, the government and ruling parties hope to quickly enact this fiscal year's supplementary budget that will support the economic measures.
Opposition parties plan to continue to investigate the relationship between the former Unification Church and the Liberal Democratic Party, as well as issues surrounding cabinet ministers' political funding.
In response to rising prices and the weaker yen, the government has decided on a new comprehensive economic package with a total fiscal expenditure of around 39 trillion yen, including measures to ease the burden of electricity and gas charges on households.
With measures to ease the burden on electricity bills and other measures, a standard household will receive a total of 45,000 yen in support in the first half of next year.
At a press conference, Prime Minister Kishida emphasized the significance of the measures, saying, "We will implement measures to boost GDP by 4.6%. We will also reduce consumer prices by more than 1.2% over the next year."
The government and the ruling parties are aiming to pass a supplementary budget bill for this fiscal year, which will support the economic measures in the general account, totaling approximately 29.1 trillion yen, at an early stage in the current Diet session. I would like to try to recover.
On the other hand, Izumi, the representative of the Constitutional Democratic Party, criticized that ``the budget was forcibly inflated and lacked content and grounds,'' and is expected to be discussed in the future over the content of the measures and the size of the budget proposal.
On the other hand, regarding the former Unification Church, at the time of the House of Representatives election last year, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Yamada and others signed a "recommendation letter of recommendation" from an affiliated organization of the church, and Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Kihara received a letter of recommendation from an affiliated organization. It was newly revealed that he had received
In this regard, the government would like to obtain the understanding of the former Unification Church by demanding that each of them fulfill their accountability and responding strictly to the former Unification Church by exercising the "right to ask questions" based on the Religious Corporations Act.
On the other hand, the opposition parties have a policy of continuing to investigate, saying, "We need a thorough clarification of the relationship between the former Unification Church and the Liberal Democratic Party."
In addition, we will continue to pursue the fact that the deceased person was listed as the accountant in the political fund income and expenditure report of the local support group of Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications Terada.