柿沢前副大臣が議員辞職願　公選法違反事件で起訴

　東京都江東区長選を巡る公職選挙法違反事件で逮捕、起訴された柿沢未途前法務副大臣＝衆院東京１５区、自民党離党＝は１日午前、額賀福志郎衆院議長宛てに議員辞職願を提出した。同日午後の衆院本会議で許可される見通し。
　辞職が確定すれば、東京１５区は補欠選挙となる。公選法の規定に基づき、衆院解散がなければ細田博之前衆院議長の死去に伴う島根１区、谷川弥一氏が自民党安倍派の裏金事件で辞職したことに伴う長崎３区と合わせ、４月２８日投開票の日程で実施される見込みだ。（2024/02/01-11:55）

Former Japanese State Minister of Justice Mito Kakizawa on Thursday tendered his resignation as a House of Representatives lawmaker after he was indicted in a vote-buying case over a Tokyo mayoral election.
   Kakizawa submitted the resignation to Lower House Speaker Fukushiro Nukaga in the morning. His resignation is expected to be approved at a plenary meeting of the all-important chamber of the Diet, Japan's parliament, later Thursday.
   To fill the vacancy that will be left by his resignation, a by-election will take place in the No. 15 constituency of Tokyo on April 28 under the public offices election law.
   Kakizawa, who left the ruling Liberal Democratic Party in December last year, has been elected to the Lower House five times.
   He has been indicted for offering money to some members of Tokyo's Koto Ward assembly and others as compensation for campaigning to help former Koto Mayor Yayoi Kimura win the mayoral election in April last year. Kimura resigned as mayor of the ward, which is the Tokyo No. 15 constituency, in November last year.