Regarding the issue surrounding the Liberal Democratic Party's Abe faction's political funding party, Takuro Komori, Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications, and Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Tatsuyoshi Kato, who belong to the Liberal Democratic Party's Abe faction, resigned after new income that was not recorded in the income and expenditure report was revealed. Did.
In response to this issue, last month the government replaced 10 of the 15 parliamentary vice-ministers who belong to Abe's faction, while retaining the remaining five parliamentary vice-ministers based on their wishes.
Under these circumstances, it was newly revealed that Takuro Komori, Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications, and Ryuho Kato, Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, who belong to the Abe faction, had income that was not recorded in the income and expenditure report, and they wanted to take responsibility. I submitted my resignation on the same day.
In response to this, the government decided at a rotating Cabinet meeting that the two would resign.
It was also decided to appoint Shoji
Nishida, a member of the House of Representatives of the Liberal Democratic Party, as Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications,
and Masao Ozaki, a member of the House of Representatives of the Liberal Democratic Party, as Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.