衆院政倫審、２８、２９日開催決定へ　公開焦点、岸田首相「国民説明の場」

　衆院政治倫理審査会は２６日の幹事会で、自民党派閥の政治資金パーティー裏金事件に関する審査の在り方を協議した。安倍、二階両派幹部５人が出席を申し出たのを受け、同日中にも２８、２９両日の開催を決定する見通し。原則非公開とされる審査を公開するかどうかが焦点だ。
　岸田文雄首相（党総裁）は２６日の衆院予算委員会で、政倫審について「国民に向けて説明する大変重要な場だ」と指摘。ただ、公開の是非に関しては、国会の判断だと述べるにとどめた。
　この後の幹事会で、自民党は「完全非公開」を改めて主張したが、立憲民主党など野党は拒否。与野党の筆頭幹事間で調整を続けることになった。（2024/02/26-13:01）

A Japanese parliamentary panel on political ethics on Monday discussed a plan to hold sessions on a high-profile money scandal involving factions of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.
   The Deliberative Council on Political Ethics of the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the country's parliament, held the discussions at the day's meeting of its senior members, after five LDP members last week formally offered to appear before the panel.
   At the heart of the day's discussions was whether the upcoming panel sessions should be open to the public. The LDP and the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan had agreed to hold the sessions on Wednesday and Thursday.
   "There has been only one case in our long history in which a session of the Lower House ethics panel was completely closed to the public," Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, also president of the LDP, told a meeting of the Lower House Budget Committee on Monday. "I hope the best way will be taken from the perspective of accountability."
   While the LDP aimed for the upcoming ethics panel sessions to be completely closed to the public, the CDP and other opposition parties rejected this. The senior panel officials from the ruling and opposition parties decided to continue discussions on the matter.