立憲、会期３カ月延長を正式要求　自民・森山氏「必要ない」

　立憲民主党の安住淳国対委員長は１１日、国会内で自民党の森山裕国対委員長と会談し、１６日に会期末を迎える今国会について、会期を３カ月延長するよう正式に求めた。森山氏は「必要はない」と拒否。菅義偉首相が先進７カ国首脳会議（Ｇ７サミット）から帰国する１４日に、自民の二階俊博幹事長と協議した上で改めて回答する考えを伝えた。
　立憲、共産、国民民主、社民の野党４党は会期延長が受け入れられなければ、菅内閣不信任決議案を提出する方向で検討している。（2021/06/11-11:45）

The Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan made a formal request Friday to extend the ongoing regular session of the Diet, the country's parliament, for three months.
   Jun Azumi, Diet affairs chief of Japan's main opposition party, met with his ruling Liberal Democratic Party counterpart Hiroshi Moriyama to call for the extension, ahead of the session's scheduled end next Wednesday.
   Moriyama turned down the request, saying that an extension is not necessary. The LDP Diet affairs chief said that he will respond again on Monday, when Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga returns from the summit of the Group of Seven major industrial countries in Britain, after discussing the matter with LDP Secretary-General Toshihiro Nikai.
   The CDP and three other opposition parties--the Japanese Communist Party, the Democratic Party for the People and the Social Democratic Party--are considering submitting a motion of no confidence against the Suga cabinet if the ruling bloc does not accept the Diet extension demand.
   "We are against ending the Diet session amid the possibility of (novel coronavirus) infections spreading explosively if the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics are held" this summer as planned, Azumi told Moriyama, after leaders of the four opposition parties at a meeting Thursday agreed to seek a three-month extension of the regular Diet session.