維新、代表選実施の方向　１２月想定、馬場氏に退陣論

　日本維新の会は３１日、常任役員会を大阪市の党本部で開いた。公示前勢力から５議席減の結果に終わった衆院選を踏まえ、代表選を早期に行う方向で手続きに入ることを決めた。１１月６日にも正式決定し、１２月１日にも実施する段取りを想定。党内には馬場伸幸代表の退陣論が出ている。
　常任役員会の終了後、馬場氏は記者団の取材に応じ、大阪の全１９選挙区で勝利したことなどに触れ、「いいトレンドが生まれている。（結果が）全て悪いわけではない」と強調。続投への意欲をにじませた。
　維新は衆院選で、大阪など拠点とする関西以外の小選挙区は苦戦し、東日本で全敗。比例代表の得票数も、前回２０２１年から約３００万票減らし、公示前の４３議席は３８議席に後退した。
　維新の規約は代表任期を国政選挙・統一地方選挙の９０日後までと定める。代表選を実施するかどうかの議決は今回、臨時党大会に代えて電子投票を用いる方向だ。（2024/10/31-22:01）

Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Innovation Party) decided Thursday to begin procedures to hold an early leadership election, amid growing calls for party leader Nobuyuki Baba's resignation following the party's poor showing in Sunday's general election.
   The party plans to formally decide as early as Nov. 6 whether to hold a leadership election.
   Acknowledging the party's defeat in the House of Representatives election, Baba said at Thursday's party executive meeting that the result was "entirely my responsibility." The party saw its number of Lower House seats drop by five, from 43 to 38.
   At the same time, Baba expressed his eagerness to stay on as party chief, saying, "I hope to continue working with you all to have more colleagues and increase our influence in national and regional politics."
   In the recent election, Nippon Ishin won all 19 single-seat constituencies in Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, but lost all in eastern Japan. It also received about three million fewer votes under the proportional representation system than in the previous Lower House election in 2021.