New Komeito will submit a bill to the Diet to give permanent foreign residents suffrage in local elections, even if it fails to secure collective support from the Liberal Democratic Party, a party executive said Thursday.
New Komeito Secretary General Tetsuzo Fuyushiba explained his party's intentions to the secretaries general of the other ruling coalition parties -- the LDP and the Liberal Party -- during a meeting at the Diet.
Liberal Party Secretary General Hirohisa Fujii agreed to jointly submit the bill with New Komeito, according to Fuyushiba.