国民投票法改正、自民が今国会断念　野党反対、２１日の衆院憲法審開催見送り

　自民党は２０日、憲法改正国民投票の利便性を高める国民投票法改正案について、今国会での成立を見送る方針を固めた。立憲民主党など主要野党は同日の幹事長・書記局長会談で、今国会採決を阻止し、継続審議を求める方針を確認。与党は先に採決を強行しないと決めており、来年１月召集の通常国会で改めて成立を期すことにした。
　与党は２０日の衆院憲法審査会の幹事懇談会で２１日採決を提案。ただ、主要野党は国民投票に関するＣＭ規制の議論を優先すべきだとの立場を変えず、採決後の議論を求める与党と溝は埋まらなかった。与野党は２１日の審査会開催を見送ることを決めた。
　自民党の森山裕国対委員長と立憲民主党の安住淳国対委員長は断続的に協議し、改正案に関して「今国会で継続して議論を行う」ことを確認した。
　今国会会期は１２月９日まで。２１日に衆院審査会を開かないことにより、憲法審の定例日は衆参とも残り２回。自民党は今国会成立に必要な審議日数を確保できないと判断した。
　一方、日本維新の会の馬場伸幸幹事長は記者会見で、「野党の相変わらずの妨害作戦、与党側も本当にやる気があるのか」と批判。衆院憲法審の定例日が木曜日と決められていることについて「定例日以外でも議論することは可能だ。（国会）閉会中でも議論ができる」と述べた。（2019/11/20-22:30）

An amendment to Japan's national referendum law aimed at improving voter convenience in a possible referendum for revising the Constitution is now very unlikely to be passed during the current extraordinary session of the Diet, the country's parliament, which ends Dec. 9.
   At a meeting on Wednesday, senior officials of major opposition parties, including the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, agreed to oppose the bill being put to a vote during the current session.
   Later in the day, Hiroshi Moriyama, Diet affairs chief of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, and his counterpart from the CDPJ, Jun Azumi, met and agreed to not hold a vote Thursday on the bill at the Commission on the Constitution of the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the Diet. The LDP and its Komeito ally recently confirmed that they will not ram through a vote.
   At a meeting of senior members of the commission Wednesday, the two sides remained in a deadlock as the ruling camp proposed that the commission take a vote on the amendment Thursday while major opposition parties reiterated their call for putting priority on discussions on regulating television commercials regarding a constitutional revision referendum. The two sides decided to cancel a meeting of the commission planned for Thursday.
   Moriyama and Azumi agreed to continue discussions on the bill during the current Diet session. The opposition side believes that a vote will not be taken on the bill during the session.