立民、馳知事発言「国会でただす」　東京五輪招致で機密費使用

　立憲民主党の小川淳也前政調会長は１９日のフジテレビ番組で、石川県の馳浩知事が東京五輪の招致活動に官房機密費（内閣官房報償費）を使ったとの趣旨の発言をしたことについて、「国会を含めて厳しくただしていく必要がある」と述べた。
　馳氏は１７日の講演で発言し、その後に撤回した。馳氏は五輪開催が決まった当時、自民党衆院議員で、党の招致推進本部長を務めていた。
　小川氏は「事実誤認に基づく発言とはとても思えない、確信に満ちた発言だ」と指摘。自民党の林芳正前外相は同じ番組で「（馳氏は）ちょっとサービス精神が旺盛なところがあり、聴衆を面白く、沸かせようということでついつい言ってしまったのではないか」と擁護した。（2023/11/19-09:34）

Junya Ogawa, former policy affairs chief of the major opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, said Sunday that the controversial remark by Ishikawa Governor Hiroshi Hase related to Olympic bidding activities needs to be sternly challenged in the Diet, Japan's parliament.
   In a speech on Friday, Hase made a statement to the effect that he used confidential funds of the Cabinet Secretariat to send a gift to an International Olympic Committee member as part of activities in bidding linked to the Tokyo Olympics. The governor, who was a House of Representatives lawmaker of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and head of the party's Olympic bidding headquarters when the IOC picked Tokyo in 2013 as the host of the 2020 Summer Games, withdrew the remark on Saturday, saying that there was a factual error.
   "I find it very hard to believe that it was a statement based on a factual error," CDP's Ogawa said in a television program Sunday. "It was a statement of conviction."
   Hase's act may constitute a violation of the IOC's Code of Ethics.