Tokyo - The Japanese parliament on Friday passed a record 88.5-trillion-yen (902.74 billion dollars) budget for fiscal 2009.

With the budget passed, Prime Minister Taro Aso was expected to order the government next week to compile an extra budget for economic stimulus measures for the year that starts on April 1.

The upper house earlier Friday voted down the budget, which includes 1 trillion yen in special emergency reserves, because the opposition holds the majority of the House of Councillors.

But the more powerful lower house, which approved the budget last month, takes precedence on budgetary decisions, according to the constitution.

With the budget now passed, Aso may face pressure to call for a lower house election, analysts say.

With the recent political fund scandal within the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), the nation's political situation has increasingly become uncertain.

The DPJ President Ichiro Ozawa, who decided to stay on, face criticism and calls for resignation after his secretary was indicted for allegedly receiving illegal donations from trouble-ridden Nishimatsu Construction Co.

Ozawa was considered frontrunner in the scheduled election to become the premier before the scandal.

Aso's ruling party also had Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Toshihiro Nikai, who has shady relations with the construction company. (dpa)