河村名古屋市長、衆院選出馬へ　日本保守党公認、愛知１区

　名古屋市の河村たかし市長（７５）は１日、次期衆院選に愛知１区から出馬する意向を表明した。記者団の取材に対し、自民党派閥の裏金事件に触れた上で「税金を払う人が苦しむ世の中を変える戦いに挑む」と語った。作家の百田尚樹氏が代表、自身が共同代表を務める政治団体「日本保守党」の公認候補となる方向。
　河村氏は１９９３年衆院選で日本新党から初当選し、旧民主党などに所属した。当選５回。９６年に小選挙区制に変わって以降は愛知１区を地盤とした。２００９年の名古屋市長選で初当選し、現在４期目。地域政党「減税日本」の代表も務めている。
　次期衆院選の愛知１区には自民党現職の熊田裕通氏（６０）、立憲民主党現職の吉田統彦氏（４９）＝比例代表東海ブロック＝、日本維新の会新人の山本耕一氏（４７）も出馬を予定している。（2024/10/01-11:19）

Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura said Tuesday that he will run in the next election of the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of Japan's parliament.
   "I will start a battle to change this society, where taxpayers suffer," he told reporters after referring to the high-profile slush fund scandal at the Liberal Democratic Party.
   He is expected to be an official candidate of the Conservative Party of Japan, a political organization where he serves as co-leader under novelist Naoki Hyakuta as top leader.
   Kawamura, 75, was elected to the Diet for the first time in the 1993 Lower House election as a candidate of the now-defunct Japan New Party. He later joined other parties such as the now-defunct Democratic Party of Japan. He has been elected five times to the Diet.
   Since Japan introduced its current single-seat constituency system for the Lower House in 1996, he had been based in Aichi Prefecture's No. 1 constituency.