A special three-day session of the Diet will be convened on Dec 24, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Thursday.
On the first day, Shinzo Abe is expected to be re-elected prime minister and president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. Abe's re-election will be a mere formality as the LDP and its coalition partner Komeito have a two-thirds majority in the lower house following last Sunday's election.
No new bills will be introduced.
The next regular Diet session will be convened in late January.
© Japan Today
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Jake Lonergan
Its going to take three days to do this??
Okay, now I am wondering what tax paid perks they will be enjoying for three days just to confirm a fore-gone conclusion.
Or is that a state secret?
HaraldBloodaxe
I'm wondering what laws are going to be steamrollered through now they've officially denied they're planning to.
And we'll never know because a pound to a penny says they'll be covered under the Secrecy Act and we'll only find out once we've broken them.
Kobuta Chan
I hope Komeito's MPs will vote down Casino bill when LDP's pro-Casino MPs put legislation in Diet next year.
itsonlyrocknroll
Shocking waste of tax payes money, shameless nonsense dressed up as democratic vanity.