国交相、公明・斉藤氏起用へ　事務副長官に栗生元警察庁長官

　自民党の岸田文雄総裁は４日発足の岸田内閣で、公明党の赤羽一嘉国土交通相（６３）を交代させ、後任に同党の斉藤鉄夫副代表（６９）を起用する意向を固めた。同党幹部が３日、明らかにした。
　事務担当の官房副長官を歴代最長の約９年務めた杉田和博氏（８０）の後任に、栗生俊一元警察庁長官（６２）を充てる人事も固まった。岸田氏は同日中に閣僚人事の全容を固め、４日の首相指名選挙を経て新内閣を発足させたい考えだ。
　斉藤氏は衆院比例代表中国ブロック選出の当選９回。福田、麻生両内閣で環境相を務めたほか、党幹事長、政調会長などを歴任した。公明党議員の再入閣は異例。斉藤氏は次期衆院選で広島３区からの出馬を予定しており、同党としては選挙対策に絡む思惑もあるとみられる。（2021/10/03-12:44）

Komeito deputy leader Tetsuo Saito is expected to become minister of land, infrastructure, transport and tourism in Japan's new cabinet to be formed Monday, a senior Komeito member said Sunday.
   Saito, 69, will replace the current minister, Kazuyoshi Akaba, 63, also of Komeito, the junior coalition partner of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.
   LDP President Fumio Kishida plans to form the cabinet after elected prime minister at an extraordinary session of the Diet, the country's parliament, to be convened Monday.
   Kishida will also appoint former National Police Agency Commissioner-General Shunichi Kuryu, 62, as deputy chief cabinet secretary for administrative affairs. He will succeed Kazuhiro Sugita, 80, who has held the post for a record nine years.
   Saito has been elected nine times to the House of Representatives, the all-important lower chamber of the Diet.