Japan: LDP to seek multiparty project team to draft revised Constitution

<p>The ruling Liberal Democratic Party is considering launching a project team with opposition parties that are open to writing a revised Constitution in order to work out a draft, a party executive said Monday.</p><p>The project team is aimed at reaching a quick agreement aside from the commissions on the Constitution in both Diet chambers that include Japanese Communist Party members opposed to any change, the executive said.</p><p>The move, which Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s LDP aims to launch during the regular Diet session to convene later this month, may stir controversy even within the ruling coalition, however, as some are concerned it may disregard the parliamentary commissions.</p>
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