The Democratic Party of Japan is prepared to revise the bills needed to put the fiscal 2011 budget into effect because the opposition camp is refusing to help the ruling party get them through the Diet, a senior DPJ lawmaker said Friday.
DPJ Diet affairs chief Jun Azumi told a meeting with his opposition party counterparts that the DPJ will be open to amending bills that would enable the government to issue special deficit-covering bonds to finance the budget and allow tax changes in fiscal 2011, which starts in April.
Azumi also told them that a vote on the bills in the Lower House, which would precede the vote in the Upper House, would not take place at the same time as the vote on the budget plan.