衆院議長に額賀元財務相　臨時国会で選出―自民最終調整

　自民党は体調不良を理由に辞任する細田博之衆院議長（７９）の後任に、額賀福志郎元財務相（７９）＝衆院茨城２区＝を推す方向で最終調整に入った。複数の党幹部が１３日、明らかにした。２０日召集の臨時国会冒頭で行われる議長選挙で選出される見通しだ。
　衆院議長は与党第１党から出すのが慣例になっている。自民の茂木敏充幹事長は、「新しい議長をこれから選ぶ党内調整を進めていきたい」と記者団に語った。（2023/10/13-17:17）

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party is in the final stage of talks to recommend former Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga, 79, to replace Hiroyuki Hosoda as speaker of the House of Representatives, senior LDP officials said Friday.
   Nukaga, a Lower House member elected from the eastern prefecture of Ibaraki, is expected to be chosen as speaker of the lower chamber of the Diet, the country's parliament, in a vote at the beginning of an extraordinary Diet session to be convened Oct. 20.
   Hosoda, 79, is set to resign as Lower House speaker due to poor health.
   The Lower House's speaker is customarily elected from the largest party in the chamber.
   Nukaga won a parliamentary seat for the first time in the 1983 Lower House election, after working as a journalist of the major Japanese newspaper Sankei Shimbun and a member of the Ibaraki prefectural assembly. He has been elected to the Lower House a total of 13 times.