立民幹事長、岡田氏で調整　参院選敗北受け―泉代表

　立憲民主党の泉健太代表は、参院選敗北を受けて検討中の党執行部人事について、西村智奈美幹事長を交代させ、後任に岡田克也元外相を起用する方向で調整に入った。複数の党関係者が２０日、明らかにした。
　幹事長にベテランを起用し、来年春の統一地方選に向け、党勢立て直しを図る狙いがある。西村氏は執行部に残留させる方向だ。
　岡田氏は２０日、津市の記者会見で「泉代表からいろいろな相談をもらっている。私なりの考え方を伝えているが、決まったことはない」と述べた。（2022/08/20-19:08）

Kenta Izumi, leader of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, is planning on appointing former Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada as the opposition party's secretary-general, several party sources said Saturday.
   The incumbent secretary-general, Chinami Nishimura, is likely to be switched to another position in the party's executive team.
   Izumi has been considering reshuffling the CDP's executive roster since the party's defeat in the July election for the House of Councillors, the upper chamber of the Diet, Japan's parliament.
   By appointing the veteran lawmaker as secretary-general, Izumi aims to rebuild the party's reputation ahead of unified local elections next spring.
   "I've been consulted by the party leader on many different things, and I've been telling him my opinions, but nothing has been decided," Okada said at a press conference in the city of Tsu in the central Japan prefecture of Mie.