- The budget bill for the 2001 fiscal year was passed in the Upper
House plenary session by a majority of agreeing governing parties,
as originally proposed by the government. The budget is composing
the large-sized budget for three consecutive years and the general
account amounts to a little less than 83 trillion yen taking into
consideration the market. However, while the unemployment rate tends
to be closed to 5%, the positive measure that cancels the uneasiness
of living and employment of working people is missing. The budget
is drawn up as in the past and does not take into account the voice
of the people frightened of future uneasiness. RENGO strongly protests
with anger against the budget that does not look back upon living
of working people.
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In the Standing Committee on Budget of both Upper and Lower Houses,
the government and the Liberal Democratic Party have ignored the
voice which asks for the thorough investigation to the structural
decomposition problems of the Liberal Democratic Party politics,
such as "the KSD corruption" and "the secret diplomat
fund scandal." On the other hand, the four opposition parties
centering on the Democratic Party jointly submitted recombination
of public works and the "opposition party common budget recombination
demand", and tackled budget recombination. However, the government
and governing parties closed deliberations by the power of a number,
adopted the bill today.
The governing parties have urged the government to implement an
emergency economic measure on March 9 in order to respond the current
depression. However, the contents include the measure against a
stock price that only patches up near future, and the measure to
promote forcible disposal of nonperforming loan, which will inflame
the future uneasiness of working people.
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RENGO has urged to include in the 2001 budget measures to promote
the stability in employment and living, including a radical unemployment
policy and economic measures to stimulate personal consumption and
strongly called for the recombination of the budget in cooperation
of the opposition parties. However, the government completely ignored
the voice of working people, and formed government budget without
any amendment.
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RENGO continues to ask for the stability of living and employment
and realization of economic recovery through employment policy to
overcome the worst ever unemployment situation and better social
security policy to cancel the uneasiness about future. Simultaneously,
RENGO requests that the three ruling parties, who do not listen
to the voice of the people, working hard to hide political decomposition,
should step down from the power. RENGO will gather voices of the
people and widely appeals for establishment of the political power,
which has responsibility in living, and employment of the people.
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