馬場氏が出馬表明　松井氏「資質は十分評価」―維新代表選

　日本維新の会の馬場伸幸共同代表は２日、衆院議員会館で記者会見し、松井一郎代表の辞任に伴う代表選（１４日告示、２７日投開票）に出馬すると表明した。足立康史国会議員団政調会長も立候補を発表しており、選挙戦となる見通しだ。
　代表選をめぐっては、吉村洋文副代表が出馬を見送り、馬場氏が次期代表の有力候補との見方が広がっていた。松井氏は大阪市役所で記者団に「資質は十分評価できる」と述べ、馬場氏を推す考えをにじませた。藤田文武幹事長も記者会見で馬場氏支持を表明した。（2022/08/02-17:54）

Nobuyuki Baba, co-leader of Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Innovation Party), declared his candidacy Tuesday in the opposition party's leadership election on Aug. 27.
   Yasushi Adachi, policy chief for party lawmakers, has also announced his bid for the race to pick the successor to Ichiro Matsui.
   Baba, a member of the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of Japan's parliament, told a press conference in Tokyo that he intends to make Nippon Ishin the leading opposition party in the next Lower House election.
   "We will then aim to take over the reins of government in 10 years," he said.
   Baba has been widely regarded as a major candidate since deputy party chief Hirofumi Yoshimura, also governor of the western Japan prefecture of Osaka, declined to run in the leadership election.