菅首相、追加経済対策指示へ　衆院選アピール、３０兆円規模か

　菅義偉首相は緊急事態宣言の拡大など新型コロナウイルスの感染防止策の強化に合わせ、国民生活を下支えする追加経済対策の取りまとめを近く政府・自民党に指示する方針だ。同党は公明党との協議を経て、衆院選でアピールできるよう９月前半にも提言を策定。衆院選後の国会で追加対策を盛り込んだ２０２１年度補正予算の成立を図る日程を描いている。
　西村康稔経済再生担当相は２９日、参院内閣委員会の閉会中審査で、公明党議員が補正予算の必要性を訴えたのに対し、「首相とよく相談しながら、状況に応じてちゅうちょなく機動的なマクロ経済運営を行っていきたい」と語った。
　秋までにある衆院選に向け、与党は「今こそ政府が経済を下支えする必要がある」（安倍晋三前首相）と歳出圧力を強めている。首相も「状況を見ながら臨機応変に対応する」と述べており、近く策定を正式に指示する見通しだ。（2021/07/29-18:13）

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga plans to instruct the government and ruling Liberal Democratic Party to draw up an additional economic package to support citizens' lives amid the novel coronavirus crisis, according to informed sources.
   The LDP and its junior coalition partner, Komeito, are expected to compile a proposal as early as the first half of September, so that it can be promoted during campaigning for the general election slated to take place by autumn.
   Suga is seen instructing the creation of the package in addition to the strengthening of coronavirus infection prevention measures, such as the expansion of the ongoing state of emergency.
   Suga hopes to pass the measures as part of a fiscal 2021 supplementary budget after the election for the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of Japan's parliament.
   "I want to engage in agile macroeconomic management in line with the circumstances and without hesitation, while consulting the prime minister," economic revitalization minister Yasutoshi Nishimura, who is in charge of the government's coronavirus response, said Thursday.