In response to the issue surrounding the political funding party of a faction of the Liberal Democratic Party, the "Reiwa National Conference," also known as "Reiwa Rincho," which includes experts from various fields, held a press conference in Tokyo and revealed false statements in the income and expenditure report. We have announced an urgent proposal calling for stronger penalties in cases where such violations occur.
The emergency recommendations announced by Reiwa Rincho include lowering the purchase price of party tickets, which require names and other information to be written on income and expenditure reports, to ``over 50,000 yen,'' as well as lowering the purchase price of party tickets to ``exceed 50,000 yen.'' In such cases, the ruling and opposition parties should reach an agreement at the current Diet session to strengthen penalties and create a mechanism to hold politicians accountable, similar to the ``linkage system'' under the Public Offices Election Act.
In addition, political parties should clarify the expenditure of "policy activity expenses" to members, etc., establish a highly independent third party organization to supervise political funds, and inspect and review the political party subsidy system. It is also necessary to do this.
Furthermore, as medium- to long-term issues, we are calling for a zero-based review of the Public Offices Election Act and the Political Funds Control Act, as well as for each party to establish a ``governance code'' that will serve as guidelines for organizational governance, and to conduct transparent party management. I am.
Professor Masanori Taniguchi of the University of Tokyo, who compiled the recommendations, said, ``I want to ask the world about the recommendations with a sense of crisis that unless we establish the governance of political parties, Japan's democratic politics will no longer be viable.''