The DPJ is caught between a rock and a hard place, and Kan’s premiership will surely reach a stalemate. Because the DPJ has neither an upper-house majority nor the two-thirds lower-house majority needed to override upper-house votes, his government will be unable to pass budget and/or appropriation bills by the end of the current fiscal year, March 31, 2011.
现在民主党进退两难，菅的首相职位也前途未卜。民主党既没有占到上议院的多数席位，也没能在下议院中占得三分之二多数（因而无法推翻上议院决议），菅直人政府将无法在2011年3月31日本财政年度结束前通过预算案和支出案中的一个或全部。