The ruling coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party and New Komeito submitted a resolution proposal Friday to House of Representatives Speaker Yohei Kono to urge scandal-hit lawmaker Shingo Nishimura to resign.

Nishimura, kicked out of the Democratic Party of Japan, pleaded guilty Thursday of having one of his employees use his name to act as a lawyer.

It is the first time the ruling bloc has submitted this kind of resolution, which is nonbinding, to the Lower House, the chamber's secretariat said.