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Opposition Presses Article 53 Session Demand as CDP Installs New Leadership

The Cabinet has not set a date for an extraordinary session, heightening pressure before the Oct. 4 LDP leadership vote.

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Overview

  • Opposition parties in the House of Councillors on Sept. 11 submitted a written request to President Shoichi Sekiguchi for an early extraordinary Diet session under Article 53.
  • The move follows a Sept. 10 request in the House of Representatives, activating a constitutional mechanism that obliges the Cabinet to convoke the Diet when at least one quarter of a chamber’s members call for it.
  • Participants in the upper-house submission included the Constitutional Democratic Party, Democratic Party for the People, Nippon Ishin no Kai and Sanseitō.
  • Some Liberal Democratic Party figures expect any convocation to occur no earlier than mid‑October, while the party’s presidential vote is fixed for Oct. 4.
  • The CDP approved a refreshed executive team, naming Jun Azumi as secretary‑general and Tomofumi Honjo as policy chief, aiming to rebuild after a lackluster Upper House election showing.