補正審議入りがずれ込み　総務相に松本剛明氏

　寺田稔前総務相が政治資金問題で辞任したことを受け、２０２２年度補正予算案を審議するため２１日午後１時に予定していた衆院本会議の開会はずれ込んだ。寺田氏の後任には、自民党の松本剛明元外相が就任した。
　与野党の国対委員長は国会内で会談。この後、立憲民主党の安住淳国対委員長は記者団に「１時からの本会議は白紙だ」と語った。今国会の会期末を１２月１０日に控え、政府・与党が目指す補正予算案の月内成立は極めて厳しい情勢だ。（2022/11/21-12:18）

The Diet, or Japan's parliament, on Monday delayed the start of deliberations on the government's fiscal 2022 second supplementary budget due to Sunday's resignation of a cabinet minister.
   The House of Representatives, the Diet's lower chamber, could not open a plenary meeting at 1 p.m. (4 a.m. GMT) as planned.
   The government and ruling coalition aim to get the extra budget through the Diet this month, but it is extremely difficult for them to achieve the goal, sources familiar with the situation said.
   The government submitted the 28.9-trillion-yen budget to the Diet earlier on Monday to finance its economic package chiefly designed to combat soaring prices.
   Internal affairs minister Minoru Terada resigned Sunday over a political funds scandal, becoming the third member of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's cabinet to leave office in the space of less than a month.