自民幹部、吉川衆院議員の辞職要求　１８歳と飲酒疑惑

　自民党の世耕弘成参院幹事長は１３日、１８歳の女子大生に飲酒させ、金銭を払ったなどと週刊ポストに報じられ、自民党を離党した吉川赳衆院議員＝比例代表東海ブロック＝について、議員辞職すべきだとの考えを表明した。党参院議員総会で「さっさと党は出て行ってもらったが、比例復活の議員なので自民党の議席だ。議員辞職も求めていきたい」と述べた。
　世耕氏は通常国会の会期末が迫り、その後に参院選が控えていることに言及。「こういう気の緩んだことをしていた議員がいるということは本当に残念だ」と強調した。松野博一官房長官は記者会見で「国民から疑惑を持たれるようなことがあった場合は自ら説明すべきだ」と述べた。（2022/06/13-13:16）

A Liberal Democratic Party heavyweight urged House of Representatives member Takeru Yoshikawa on Monday to surrender his parliamentary seat, after he resigned from the Japanese ruling party last week over a scandal.
   "I will urge Yoshikawa to quit as a lawmaker," Hiroshige Seko, the party's secretary-general at the House of Councillors, the upper chamber of the Diet, Japan's parliament, said at a general meeting of LDP Upper House lawmakers.
   In last October's Lower House general election, Yoshikawa was given an LDP proportional representation seat for the Tokai bloc in central Japan after being defeated in a single-seat constituency in Shizuoka Prefecture.
   "We had him quickly leave the LDP," Seko said, while pointing out that the proportional representation seat given to him belongs to the party. Yoshikawa's resignation from the LDP was accepted Friday.
   According to Japanese weekly magazine Shukan Post, Yoshikawa last month dined out with a female university student, 18, under drinking age, gave alcohol and paid her 40,000 yen in cash.