岸田首相、裏金処分前の解散否定　関係議員の説明を重視―参院予算委

　岸田文雄首相は１８日の参院予算委員会の集中審議で、自民党派閥の裏金事件の関係議員処分について「今の感触においては通常国会中に判断する」と述べた。今国会の会期末は６月２３日。「処分の前に（衆院）解散は考えていない」と明言した。立憲民主党の福山哲郎元幹事長への答弁。
　福山氏は、国会の政治倫理審査会への出席が処分の判断に影響するかを尋ねた。首相は「説明の形ではなく、中身が大事だ」と述べ、発言の内容を重視する考えを示した。（2024/03/18-12:06）

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Monday that he does not intend to dissolve the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of parliament, before punishing Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers involved in a money scandal.
   "I think I will make a decision during the current ordinary Diet session" on the punishments of LDP lawmakers involved in the scandal, Kishida told the Budget Committee of the House of Councillors, the upper chamber.
   "I am not thinking of dissolving (the Lower House) before the punishments" for a snap election, he added.
   The ordinary session is slated to end on June 23. Kishida is president of the ruling LDP.
   Asked whether such lawmakers' attendance at a hearing of a Diet political ethics panel would affect decisions on their punishments, Kishida said that what they say is important, not the format for their explanations.