More than 50 percent of the public is opposed to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's plan to submit his party's proposal to revise the Constitution to the extraordinary Diet session expected this fall, a Kyodo News survey showed Friday.

According to the survey, 51 percent of the respondents are against the move to submit the proposal from his Liberal Democratic Party, which elected Abe to a third term as president on Thursday, and 35.7 percent are in favor.

At a news conference following his victory in the LDP race, Abe expressed hope that the party would accelerate its preparations to submit the constitutional revision proposals to the upcoming session.