TOKYO, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Shizuka Kamei, the head of a small party in Japan's ruling coalition, called on Wednesday for more stimulus spending to boost the economy but said there was little chance of him leaving the coalition over disagreements.
Kamei, banking minister and head of the tiny People's New Party, had pushed for more spending in an economic stimulus package unveiled on Tuesday, but in the end the package was inflated by just 100 billion yen ($1.1 billion) to a total 7.2 trillion yen ($80 billion) amid worries about Japan's bulging public debt.
Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's Democratic Party has a huge majority in parliament's powerful lower house but needs the support of Kamei's PNP and another small ally to enact laws smoothly because it lacks a majority in the upper chamber. ($1=89.56 Yen) (Reporting by David Schlesinger, David Dolan and Noriyuki Hirata)