立・国、５日にも党首会談　連合交え政策協議―幹事長合意

　立憲民主、国民民主両党は１日午前、幹事長・国対委員長会談を国会内で行い、立民の野田佳彦、国民の玉木雄一郎両代表が５日にも会談することで合意した。外交・安全保障など基本政策に関する協議を、連合を交えて政調会長レベルで始めることも申し合わせた。
　会談には立民の小川淳也、国民の榛葉賀津也両幹事長らが出席。双方は衆院の委員長人事など国会運営を巡って協力していくことで一致した。衆院選での与党過半数割れを受け、立民は同様に連合の支援を受ける国民と連携強化を図りたい考えだ。
　自民党派閥の裏金事件を受けた政治改革実現への連携も確認。特別国会での首相指名選挙の対応は議題にならなかった。国民側が既に決選投票で玉木氏への投票方針を明らかにしているためとみられる。
　野田氏は１日の記者会見で、玉木氏との会談について「国会改革も含め、幅広に党首同士の議論をしていきたい」と語った。（2024/11/01-12:26）

Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan leader Yoshihiko Noda and Democratic Party for the People chief Yuichiro Tamaki will hold talks as early as Tuesday, according to an agreement reached at Friday's meeting of the two opposition parties' secretaries-general and parliamentary affairs chiefs.
   The agreement came after the ruling coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito lost its majority in the House of Representatives, the all-important lower chamber of Japan's parliament, in Sunday's election. The main opposition CDP aims to strengthen cooperation with the smaller opposition DPFP through the upcoming leaders' talks and other occasions.
   Also at Friday's meeting, CDP Secretary-General Junya Ogawa, his DPFP counterpart, Kazuya Shinba, and others affirmed that the two parties will initiate discussions on basic policies, such as diplomacy and security, at policy-affairs-chief level, with the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, or Rengo, an umbrella organization of labor unions in Japan that supports the two parties, also joining the talks.
   Furthermore, the CDP and DPFP agreed to cooperate in dealing with parliamentary affairs, including the appointments of standing committee chiefs in the Lower House, and in realizing political reforms in response to a slush fund scandal at the LDP.
   Friday's meeting did not touch on a vote to elect a new prime minister at a special parliamentary session planned to be convened on Nov. 11, apparently as the DPFP has already unveiled a plan for its members to vote for its leader, Tamaki, in a possible runoff.