Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama’s government has created a policy framework that brings together the heads of the three ruling coalition parties and their secretaries general to discuss key issues — a move that appears to contradict his pledge to concentrate decision-making power in the Cabinet.
The administration had said it would only hold Cabinet committee meetings involving party leaders and ministers as a way to consolidate the policymaking process in the government.
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