静岡知事に鈴木康友氏　自民系破り初当選―１５年ぶり交代、リニア争点

　川勝平太前知事（７５）の辞職に伴う静岡県知事選は２６日投開票され、無所属新人で前浜松市長の鈴木康友氏（６６）＝立憲民主、国民民主推薦＝が、無所属で県副知事を務めた元総務官僚の大村慎一氏（６０）＝自民推薦＝や共産党公認で党県委員長の森大介氏（５５）ら新人５人を破り、初当選を果たした。
　投票率は５２．４７％で、前回を０．４６ポイント下回った。
　１５年ぶりの新人同士の争いで、事実上の与野党対決となった。鈴木氏は旧民主党の衆院議員２期、浜松市長４期の実績を掲げ、産業政策の充実などを強調。県西部を中心に支持を集めた。自民党推薦候補の敗北は、４月の衆院３補欠選挙で全敗した同党にさらなる打撃となり、岸田文雄首相の政権運営に影響する可能性がある。
　知事選の大きな争点はＪＲ東海のリニア中央新幹線静岡工区で、川勝前知事は県内を流れる大井川の水量減少や自然環境への影響を懸念して着工を認めてこなかった。鈴木氏はリニア推進の立場を示し、「課題をクリアできるのか、真剣に考える」と訴えた。一方で水問題などに対する川勝氏の取り組みを尊重する考えも示している。（2024/05/27-01:08）

A candidate backed by a major Japanese opposition party was elected governor of Shizuoka Prefecture on Sunday, defeating five contenders, including one supported by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.
   Yasutomo Suzuki, a 66-year-old independent who was previously mayor of the Shizuoka city of Hamamatsu, won the governorship of the central Japan prefecture for the first time after campaigning on pledges to beef up industry in Shizuoka.
   Suzuki, supported by the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan as well as another opposition party, the Democratic Party for the People, once served in the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of Japan's parliament, as a member of the CDP's predecessor before being elected Hamamatsu mayor.
   The defeat of the LDP-backed independent candidate, Shinichi Omura, 60-year-old former deputy governor of Shizuoka who once worked for the internal affairs ministry, is another blow to the ruling party, which lost three parliamentary by-elections only last month, and could affect the fortune of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's administration.
   The gubernatorial election took place to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of former Shizuoka Governor Heita Kawakatsu, who was in office for 15 years.