Tokyo, Aug. 26 (Jiji Press)--Some members of the Centrist Reform Alliance and the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan are calling for moving back the deadline for concluding talks on the integration of the two Japanese opposition parties and Komeito, also an opposition force. Meanwhile, some Komeito lawmakers insist that the CRA's House of Representatives members who hail from Komeito should leave the CRA and return to their original party if the talks on the three-way integration fail to forge an agreement. The deadline for wrapping up the merger negotiations has effectively been set at the end of this month. The CRA was launched in January, ahead of the Feb. 8 general election for the all-important lower chamber of the Diet, Japan's parliament, by then Lower House members of the CDP and Komeito. The CRA suffered a crushing defeat in the general election. At a general meeting of its lawmakers Tuesday, the CDP confirmed a plan to decide its stance on the proposed integration after holding an intraparty meeting Friday. "An early integration would be difficult," CDP lawmaker Hideya Sugio told reporters after the Tuesday meeting, adding, "We must not disappoint liberal voters." "The situation is very tough," a CDP executive said. "Many members of the CDP's local organizations are cautious about the integration, so we may reach a conclusion that respects such a view," party member Kiyomi Tsujimoto told reporters. She sounded negative about an idea of the CDP and Komeito forming a caucus in the Senate, the Diet's upper chamber previously called the House of Councillors, citing gaps between the two parties over key national policies, such as a revision of the Imperial House Law. CRA leader Junya Ogawa and Secretary-General Takeshi Shina held a meeting Tuesday with party members who failed to win Lower House seats in the February election for discussions on the possible three-way merger. About 100 people attended the meeting, according to a participant. Only some of the attendees expressed support for an early integration while many others presented a view that it is difficult for the CRA to merge with the CDP and Komeito at the moment. Ogawa told participants that if an early integration becomes difficult, he would show a future direction in early September at the earliest. He indicated that he does not necessarily oppose a possible CDP-Komeito caucus in the Senate. Komeito, seeking the possibility of an integration this autumn, is urging the CRA to move out of its liberal stance over security policies and the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma air station in the city of Ginowan in the southernmost Japan prefecture of Okinawa to the Henoko coastal district in Nago, another city in Okinawa. At the same time, Komeito is frustrated at the growing view among the CRA and the CDP for pushing back the integration. A senior Komeito official issued a warning, saying, "We may opt to pull out of the CRA unless we reach an agreement soon." END [Copyright The Jiji Press, Ltd.]