武田総務相不信任案、午後に提出　接待問題で「対応不誠実」―野党

　立憲民主、共産、国民民主３党の国対委員長は３１日、国会内で会談し、総務省幹部接待問題をめぐる武田良太総務相の国会答弁などが不誠実だとして、衆院に不信任決議案を提出する方針で一致した。午後に３党幹事長・書記局長会談を開き、最終決定した後に提出する。与党は４月１日に衆院本会議を開き、否決する方針だ。
　野党が菅内閣の閣僚の不信任案を提出するのは初めて。立憲の安住淳国対委員長は会談後、武田氏の接待問題への対応や国会答弁に触れ、「及び腰で極めて誠実さに欠けたものだ」と記者団に指摘。「事実解明を妨げる一助になっていたのはまさに武田氏だ。大臣の任にあらずという結論に至った」と説明した。（2021/03/31-12:10）

-Parliamentary affairs chiefs of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and two other opposition parties on Wednesday agreed to submit a no-confidence motion against Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Ryota Takeda.
   The CDP, the Japanese Communist Party and the Democratic Party for the People are accusing Takeda of making insincere remarks during parliamentary discussions about high-profile dining scandals involving the communications ministry.
   The no-confidence motion will be submitted after the move is officially decided at a meeting of the secretaries-general of the CDP and the DPP and the head of the secretariat of the JCP on Wednesday afternoon.
   It will be the first time for an opposition party to submit such a motion against a member of Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's cabinet, which was launched in September last year.
   The Liberal Democratic Party-led ruling camp hopes to vote down the no-confidence motion at a plenary meeting of the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of Japan's parliament, on Thursday.