The ruling coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party and New Komeito submitted a resolution proposal Friday to House of Representatives Speaker Yohei Kono to urge scandal-hit lawmaker Shingo Nishimura to resign.
Nishimura, kicked out of the Democratic Party of Japan, pleaded guilty Thursday of having one of his employees use his name to act as a lawyer.
It is the first time the ruling bloc has submitted this kind of resolution, which is nonbinding, to the Lower House, the chamber's secretariat said.
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