The Japanese Communist Party voted against the 32 trillion yen budget which includes the reserve fund of 10 trillion yen on the grounds that the reserve fund is too large.
Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo criticized government measures in the second supplementary budget draft as insufficient in terms of efforts to prepare for a potential second wave of coronavirus infections.
Opposition parties, including the JCP, jointly introduced a motion to recompile the second supplementary budget draft in order to divert the funding needed for measures to support SMEs, healthcare services, and people's livelihoods.
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