岸田首相「厳粛に受け止め」　野党、衆院選へ「大きな自信」―参院静岡補選【２１衆院選】

　岸田政権にとって初の国政選挙となった参院静岡、山口両選挙区補欠選挙から一夜明けた２５日午前、岸田文雄首相は静岡で自民党公認候補が敗北したことについて「残念な結果だった。県民の判断を厳粛に受け止めたい」と語った。東京都内で記者団の取材に応じた。
　選挙戦で２度静岡入りした首相は敗因について「さまざまな要因の積み重ねでこうした結果になった。しっかりと分析していきたい」と述べた。投開票が３１日に迫る衆院選への影響については「政権選択選挙でもある。気持ちを引き締めて臨んでいきたい」と話した。　
　磯崎仁彦官房副長官は２５日の記者会見で「国民の声を丁寧に聞き、信頼と共感を得られる政治を目指していく」と述べた。
　一方、静岡で勝利した候補を国民民主党とともに推薦した立憲民主党の安住淳国対委員長は「接戦を勝ち抜けたのは大きな自信になった」と語った。国民の玉木雄一郎代表も「衆院選へ大きな弾みになった。連合を中心とした立民、国民の三者の力合わせがうまく機能した」と強調した。（2021/10/25-12:04）

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida expressed disappointment Monday over the loss of his ruling Liberal Democratic party's candidate in the previous day's by-election in Shizuoka Prefecture for the House of Councillors, the upper chamber of parliament.
   "It is a disappointing result," Kishida said of the race in the central Japan prefecture. "I will seriously accept the verdict of the prefecture's citizens," he told reporters in Tokyo.
   In the by-election, Shinnosuke Yamazaki, who ran as an independent and was backed by the largest opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and the major opposition Democratic Party for the People, beat his two contenders, including LDP candidate Yohei Wakabayashi, supported by Komeito, the coalition partner of the LDP.
   "A combination of many factors led to this outcome," said the prime minister, also LDP president, who visited Shizuoka twice to campaign for Wakabayashi. "We will thoroughly analyze the loss."
   The Shizuoka poll and the Upper House by-election in Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, also held Sunday, were the first Japanese parliamentary elections since Kishida took office Oct. 4 and were closely followed as precursors to next Sunday's general election for the House of Representatives, the all-important lower chamber. The LDP's candidate won the Yamaguchi election, defeating two opposition candidates.