Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party and minor coalition partner Japan Innovation Party decided to extend the current Diet session, originally due to end on July 17, to July 24 or 27, with the ruling parties aiming to pass a controversial bill to make Osaka a secondary political capital, according to Jiji Press sources on July 16. Sources also noted that if the upper house rejected the bill, the government was considering overriding it with a two-thirds majority in the lower house.

The Osaka bill is one of two coalition promises the LDP made to the JIP, with the other a controversial bill to cut Diet seats, which the LDP has already dropped. A Jiji poll released on July 16 showed that Takaichi's public approval rating had dropped 5.3 points from last month to 49.0%. The most notable drop was among voters over 60, whose approval fell from 64% to 37%.