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2012/08/31
Jojima holds press conference, comments on Diet management, motion to censure PM Noda
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DPJ Diet Affairs Committee Chair Koriki Jojima held a press conference at the Diet building on August 31, in which he expressed his desires to work hard for the establishment of important legislation toward the end of the Diet session. He also made comments about the motion to censure Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, remarking, “It is more than regrettable. I think this is a great blot on the history of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).”
At the start of the press conference, Jojima reported that he would ask the Diet Affairs Committee Chairs of the LDP and New Komeito for their cooperation on Diet management. He confirmed that he had met with Acting Secretary General Shinji Tarutoko, Secretary General of the DPJ Caucus in the House of Councillors Yasuo Ichikawa (the DPJ Deputy Secretary General), and Diet Affairs Committee Chair of the DPJ Caucus in the House of Councillors Shuji Ikeguchi, and that the group had agreed to make further efforts to advance deliberations toward the approval of important legislation such as special measures for the issuance of government bonds or legislation related to electoral system reform. Jojima also remarked that he would proceed toward the enactment of treaties and legislation scheduled to be discussed and approved by the House of Councillors the following week. He mentioned that he had recently explained four pieces of legislation on the reform of the personnel system for public employees at the Cabinet Committee, announcing, “We will steadily move forward according to schedule as the ruling party.”
Commenting on the motion to censure PM Noda during the current Diet situation in the House of Councillors and the boycott of deliberations by opposition parties in the House of Representatives, Jojima remarked, “It is all quite regrettable.” He stated that it suggested major problems in the opposition parties when party members did not attend deliberations on proposals that received the unanimous approval of the House of Councillors, and pointed out that censure motions do not have legal binding force, and in that principle the approval of a motion in one House does not mean it has been approved in the other House.
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