As the current parliamentary session draws to a close, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is facing tight time pressure in Parliament following a delay in the passage of a bill on political funds by the House of Representatives.
The House of Councilors on Friday began deliberations on the bill to revise the Law on the Control of Political Funds, drafted following a scandal over funds in Kishida’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party.
The Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and other opposition parties, which criticize the LDP’s bill as flawed, are preparing to include his government in the upper house’s deliberations and could consider filing a no-confidence resolution against the cabinet.
