The Japanese Government, especially the Ministry of Interior, expressed disapproval of that draft, and objected to the direct election of prefectural governors. As a result, based on the draft by the GHQ, the Constitution has come to provide for the following: (1) rules and regulations governing local public entities to be fixed in accordance with "the principle of local autonomy"; (2) the direct popular election of executive officers and assembly members in all local public entities; (3) the right of local public entities to manage local government property, affairs, and administration and to enact their own regulations; and (4) consent by the majority of the voters before any special law applicable to one local public entity can be enacted by the Diet.