The Liberal Democratic Party has decided to punish 39 members involved in the issue surrounding the faction's political funding party. There are voices within the party dissatisfied with the punishment and calls for Prime Minister Kishida to take responsibility.
The party's executive committee intends to take this punishment as a final step and move forward with discussions to prevent it from happening again. The opposition party believes that it is unacceptable to attempt to close the issue by imposing punishment, and will continue to strongly urge Abe faction leaders to be summoned as witnesses in order to uncover the truth.