尾辻参院議長が辞任へ　体調不良、特別国会で交代

　尾辻秀久参院議長（８４）＝鹿児島選挙区＝は議長を辞任する意向を固めた。議長周辺が２９日明らかにした。「体調不良で体力の限界だ」と説明している。自民党は後任の人選に入っており、１１月１１日の召集を軸に調整が進む特別国会で新議長が選出される見通しだ。
　尾辻氏は東大を中退後、鹿児島県議を経て、１９８９年の参院選で初当選。当選６回で、厚生労働相や自民党参院議員会長を歴任し、日本遺族会会長も務めた。２０２２年８月に参院議長に就任した。改選を迎える来年夏の参院選に出馬せず、引退する意向だ。（2024/10/29-10:52）

Hidehisa Otsuji, president of the House of Councillors, the upper chamber of Japan's parliament, has decided to resign due to a health problem, a source close to him said Tuesday.
   The 84-year-old says he has reached the limit of his physical strength due to poor health, according to the source.
   The Upper House is expected to elect a new president during the special parliamentary session likely to be convened Nov. 11. The ruling Liberal Democratic Party is looking for Otsuji's successor.
   Otsuji won a parliamentary seat for the first time in the 1989 Upper House election after working as a member of the Kagoshima prefectural assembly in southwestern Japan.
   He has been elected to the upper chamber six times. He served as health minister, chairman of the general assembly of the LDP's Upper House members and head of Nippon Izokukai, a bereaved family organization for the war dead.