Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said he has no plan to call a snap election to break deadlock in the country's parliament. -- PHOTO: AFP
TOKYO - JAPANESE Prime Minister Naoto Kan said on Friday he has no plan to call a snap election to break deadlock in the country's parliament, where opposition parties are threatening to block bills for a workable budget in the fiscal year from April.
Mr Kan is under pressure to either resign or call an early poll as his clout in the ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) weakens and opposition parties refuse to cooperate with him on pushing through budget bills in the divided parliament.
Approval by the opposition-controlled upper house is needed to pass bills needed to make the 2011/12 budget work, including one allowing issuance of deficit-financing bonds and another that would lower the corporate tax rate.
Mr Kan told opposition parties that he would not cave into their demands to call a snap election.
'I'm not thinking at all of dissolving the lower house,' he told a parliamentary session.
But he added that he will 'take action' if he needed to choose from the options available to him under the constitution, leaving room for him to take such a decision in the future. -- REUTERS
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