自民参院会長に武見氏　麻生派を離脱

　自民党は６日、参院議員特別総会を国会内で開き、武見敬三前厚生労働相（７３）を新たな参院議員会長に選出した。１１日召集の特別国会で参院議長に就任する見通しの関口昌一氏の後任。
　特別総会で武見氏は、所属してきた麻生派からの離脱を表明した。参院自民党の主要役員は今年１月に所属派閥を離脱しており、これに倣ったという。
　松山政司参院幹事長（６５）と石井準一参院国対委員長（６６）の留任も決定。参院政審会長に古川俊治氏（６１）が新たに就いた。
　武見氏は１９９５年の参院選（比例代表）で日本医師連盟の推薦候補として初当選。現在は東京選挙区選出で当選５回。岸田内閣に厚労相として初入閣した。（2024/11/06-16:23）

House of Councillors lawmakers of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Wednesday elected former welfare minister Keizo Takemi as the party's next leader in the Upper House.
   Takemi, 73, will succeed current leader Masakazu Sekiguchi, who is expected to be elected president of the Upper House at a special Diet session to be convened on Monday.
   At a special meeting of the LDP's Upper House lawmakers on Wednesday, Takemi said he would leave his LDP faction, led by former LDP Vice President Taro Aso, as LDP executives in the Upper House left their factions in January this year.
   Takemi was first elected to the Upper House in 1995, as a candidate endorsed by the Japan Medical Association. He served as welfare minister, his first cabinet post, in the administration of former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.
   It was also decided Wednesday that Masaji Matsuyama, 65, LDP secretary-general in the Upper House, and Junichi Ishii, 66, LDP chief of Diet affairs in the parliamentary chamber, will remain in their posts. Toshiharu Furukawa, 61, was newly chosen as chair of the LDP Policy Board in the Upper House.