On the afternoon of the 4th, the Liberal Democratic Party will decide on the punishment of 39 members of the Abe and Nikai factions at the Party Disciplinary Committee due to issues surrounding factional political funding parties.
The plan is to recommend that Shioya, former Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, and Seko, former Secretary-General of the House of Councilors, leave the party.
In addition, among the three former secretary-generals, Takagi, former head of the National Diet Countermeasures Committee, will have his party membership suspended for six months, while former Chief Cabinet Secretary Matsuno and former Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications Takeda will have their party positions suspended for one year. Adjusting.
Regarding this issue, the Liberal Democratic Party will hold a party discipline committee at party headquarters in the afternoon and decide on the punishment of 39 members, including members of the Abe and Nikai factions.
Prior to this, the Party Disciplinary Committee received written explanations from 31 of the 39 people who requested it by 10 a.m.
Among the four Abe faction executives who discussed the handling of kickbacks, the party executive committee includes ◇Shioya, former Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, who served as the faction's chairman, and ◇Seko, former House of Councilors secretary-general, who was the top official on the House of Councilors side. ◇Former Political Affairs Research Chairman Shimomura and ◇Former Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Nishimura will be recommended to leave the party, and their party membership will be suspended for one year.
◇Takagi, the former chairman of the National Diet Countermeasures Committee, who was the secretary-general of the Abe faction, has had his party membership suspended for six months, and ◇Former Chief Cabinet Secretary Matsuno, who also had experience as secretary-general, and former Chief Cabinet Secretary Takeda, who was the secretary-general of the Nikai faction, have been suspended for six months. Final arrangements are being made to suspend the minister from party office for one year.
In addition, members such as Hagiuda Hagiuda, former chairman of the party's political affairs research committee, who have unreported amounts of 20 million yen or more over a five-year period will be suspended from their party positions for one year.
Lawmakers whose unreported amounts are more than 5 million yen but not more than 10 million yen will be reprimanded.
The Party Disciplinary Committee will hold a meeting from 3:00 p.m., and will hold a committee meeting from 4:00 p.m. to decide on punishment based on the contents of the written explanation.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Hayashi: ``It is important to fulfill accountability''
Chief Cabinet Secretary Hayashi said at a morning press conference, ``While the government is not in a position to comment on the Liberal Democratic Party's punishment, generally speaking, it is important that each politician fulfills their accountability appropriately as necessary.'' Ta.
Ritmin Policy Research Council Chairman Nagatsuma: ``It's very incomprehensible that the prime minister is not subject to punishment.''
At a press conference, Political Affairs Research Chairman Nagatsuma of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan said, ``It would be a problem to just issue a punishment without clarifying the facts.The opposition party is demanding that 10 witnesses be subpoenaed in the Diet, so we need to provide explanations.'' , should be punished.Prime Minister Kishida is also the chairman of a faction, and the former accounting director has been found guilty, so it is obvious that he will be subject to punishment, but it is extremely puzzling that he is not. We need to take appropriate action."