The Cabinet of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi finalized a package of postal privatization bills Wednesday night after executives of his Liberal Democratic Party rammed the bills through a series of internal meetings.
After the Cabinet approved the bills, they were immediately submitted to the Diet, making good on Koizumi's promise to deliver them by the end of the month.
But the LDP's top decision-making body, the Executive Council, failed to decide whether the party should issue an order obliging all party members to back the government-sponsored bills during voting at the Diet.