自民岸田派が解散　６７年の歴史に幕

　自民党岸田派（宏池会）は３日、政治団体の解散届を総務相宛てに提出した。森山派に続く２例目。６７年の歴史に幕を閉じた。
　解散は２日付。派閥に残っていた資金は党本部に寄付する。岸田文雄首相は首相官邸で記者団に「国民の信頼を回復するためにはどうあるべきなのかを考え、解散を行った。引き続き努力は続けていかなければならない」と強調した。（2024/09/03-20:40）

The Japanese ruling party faction formerly led by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Tuesday submitted to the internal affairs minister a notice to disband itself as a political group.
   It became the second faction of the Liberal Democratic Party to disband itself after the faction that was headed by LDP General Council Chairman Hiroshi Moriyama.
   "I had been told by the (Kishida faction) secretariat that it would submit a final dissolution notice around early September," Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi, a member of the faction, told reporters in Tokyo on Tuesday.
   In January, Kishida said that he would disband his faction in the wake of a high-profile slush funds scandal involving LDP factions. In June, the Kishida faction closed its office in Tokyo's Nagatacho political district.
   Among other LDP faction heads, Toshimitsu Motegi, the party's secretary-general, told a news conference that he is quickly advancing procedures to dissolve the faction he leads.