自民政調会長に渡海氏　国対委員長は浜田氏、２２日にも決定

　岸田文雄首相（自民党総裁）は２０日、派閥の政治資金パーティー問題を受けて辞表を提出した安倍派の萩生田光一政調会長の後任に、無派閥の渡海紀三朗・元文部科学相（７５）を起用する方向で調整に入った。同じく安倍派の高木毅国対委員長の後任には無派閥の浜田靖一・前防衛相（６８）を充てる方針を固めた。複数の政府・党関係者が明らかにした。２２日にも正式に決める。
　首相は２０日、麻生太郎副総裁と首相官邸で会談した。麻生氏と会うのは３日連続で、党役員人事について協議したとみられる。
　渡海氏は１９８６年の衆院選で初当選。当選１０回で、福田康夫内閣の文科相や首相補佐官などを歴任した。浜田氏は当選１０回。防衛相や衆院予算委員長、国対委員長などを務めた。（2023/12/20-20:33）

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida plans to name former education minister Kisaburo Tokai to replace Koichi Hagiuda as policy chief of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, it was learned Wednesday.
   In addition, Kishida, also LDP president, decided to appoint former Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada as parliamentary affairs chief of the party, government and LDP sources said, adding that their appointments will be formalized as early as Friday.
   Hagiuda and current LDP Policy Research Council Chairman Tsuyoshi Takagi, both members of the biggest intraparty faction previously led by late former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, tendered their resignations Thursday over the much-heralded kickback scandal centered on the faction. Cabinet members belonging to the same faction were replaced the same day.
   Winning a seat in the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the Diet, Japan's parliament, for the first time in 1986, Tokai, 75, was re-elected for the ninth time. Without belonging to any faction in the party, he also served as an aide to the prime minister.
   Hamada, a 68-year-old Lower House lawmaker who does not belong to any intraparty faction either, has won 10 elections. He will assume the post of Diet Affairs Committee chairman again.