The Democratic Party of Japan, which will soon take the helm of government, has started trying to implement its election promises. It has decided to suspend disbursement of ¥3 trillion in allocations from the ¥14 trillion fiscal 2009 supplementary budget and to revive the once-abolished ¥18 billion in payments to mother-and-child households on welfare, in an extraordinary session of the Diet this autumn.
A complete reworking of the supplementary budget will be carried out in a Diet session to be convened in January 2010.
As for the fiscal 2010 budget, the DPJ has decided to review budgetary requests from government ministries and agencies from scratch. This will be the first step of the DPJ's plan to rework the nation's ¥207 trillion annual budget to free up money necessary to carry out election promises.