The House of Councilors will hold a political ethics review committee on the 14th in response to the issue surrounding political funding parties by factions of the Liberal Democratic Party, and three members of the House of Councilors, including Abe's former secretary-general Seko Seko, will attend.

The opposition party plans to investigate how Abe factions continued to receive kickbacks of party income.

At the House of Councilors Committee on Political Ethics on the 14th, former House of Councilors Secretary-General Seko Seko of the Liberal Democratic Party's Abe faction, Shoji Nishida, and former Olympic and Paralympic Minister Hashimoto will each give their own explanations, followed by questions. Ta.



This will be the first time that an explanation and questions will be held at a House of Councilors panel, and it will also be open to the press.



Masahisa Sato of the Liberal Democratic Party, who serves as the ruling party's lead secretary at the review committee, said, ``By having him provide a thorough explanation and asking questions, we hope to use this as an opportunity to restore trust from political distrust.''



The Liberal Democratic Party would like to demonstrate its commitment to accountability by holding a review committee in the House of Councilors.



In response, Saori Yoshikawa of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, who is the secretary of the opposition party, said, ``I would like to clarify as much as possible why this problem occurred and the discrepancies in the explanations of the faction leaders who attended the House of Representatives review committee.'' "I want to do that," he said.



The opposition party plans to investigate what happened at the time, as it is believed that Mr. Seko, who was one of the executives, was present at the meeting to discuss the handling of kickbacks from party income.



Meanwhile, in the House of Representatives, Shimomura, the new Abe faction secretary-general and former chairman of the Policy Research Institute, has proposed a review, and the lead secretaries of the Liberal Democratic Party and the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan have decided to discuss the schedule and other matters in preparation for holding the review committee. I am.