通常国会が召集　波乱含み、年内解散も視野

　第２０１通常国会が２０日召集された。政府・与党は政権の総仕上げを視野に入れ、安倍晋三首相が内政の最大の課題に挙げた「全世代型社会保障」構築に取り組む。主要野党はカジノを含む統合型リゾート（ＩＲ）事業に絡んだ汚職事件などを取り上げて追及する構え。年内の衆院解散・総選挙の可能性を念頭に置きながら攻防を繰り広げる見通しだ。

　会期は６月１７日までの１５０日間。与党は大型経済対策を盛り込んだ２０１９年度補正予算案と２０年度予算案を着実に成立させ、社会保障制度改革関連法案の処理を急ぐ。首相の自民党総裁任期は来年９月で切れる。同党は首相が目指す憲法改正論議の進展にも全力を注ぐ。（2020/01/20-12:34）

The Diet, Japan's parliament, started a 150-day ordinary session on Monday, with lawmakers bracing for a possible snap general election within this year.
   The Liberal Democratic Party-Komeito ruling coalition aims to get the fiscal 2020 draft budget and a fiscal 2019 supplementary budget bill through the Diet as soon as possible to fund a major stimulus package.
   "The early enactment of the budget bills is the greatest stimulus step," Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told a meeting of his LDP colleagues.
   The ruling coalition plans then to focus on bills for social security system reform. The LDP will also pour effort into advancing talks on constitutional reform, a longstanding goal of Abe.
   Speculation is mounting that Abe could dissolve the House of Representatives, the power lower chamber of parliament, for a snap election this year, before his current term as LDP president expires in September 2019.