DPJ Halves Hatoyama's Membership Suspension to 3 Months
Tokyo, July 9 (Jiji Press)--The ruling Democratic Party of Japan decided Monday to shorten the party membership suspension of former Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, who voted against consumption tax hike bills in the House of Representatives but remains in the party, to three months.
The party leadership initially planned to suspend him for six months.
The party's Standing Officers Council made the decision at an extraordinary meeting after its Ethical Committee on the same day asked the leadership to reconsider the disciplinary action, which was harsher than two-month suspensions of 17 other members of the lower chamber of the Diet who followed him.
"Any big difference in punishments for the same act would lack balance," the committee said.
It is rare for the committee to ask the party leadership to reconsider a disciplinary action.
(2012/07/09-21:02)
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