In a trial over the former mayor of Chiyoda Ward in Tokyo trying to dissolve the ward council last July, the Tokyo District Court decided that the dissolution was illegal and told the ward 990,000 in total for 18 members. I ordered the yen to be compensated.
In the Chiyoda Ward Assembly, Masami Ishikawa and the former Mayor confronted each other over the issue of purchasing an apartment, and when the Assembly decided to file a criminal complaint in July last year, the former Mayor said that he was "substantially distrusted." In an attempt to dissolve the parliament, lawmakers filed a complaint that the dissolution was illegal.
Chieko Shimizu, the judge of the Tokyo District Court, said in a ruling, "There is a problem in that the dissolution of the ward mayor has not passed the distrust vote stipulated by law. It is clear that the criminal accusation vote does not correspond to the distrust vote. , Dissolution is illegal. "
After that, he ordered the ward to compensate 990,000 yen for 18 members of the Diet.
Regarding the decision, Chiyoda Ward commented, "We will read the reason for the decision carefully and consider how to deal with it."