吉村氏ら４氏立候補　衆院選敗北、立て直し図る―維新代表選告示

　日本維新の会の代表選が１７日告示され、共同代表を務める吉村洋文大阪府知事（４９）ら４氏が立候補を届け出た。５議席減に終わった１０月の衆院選を受け、党勢の立て直しに向けた方策が主な争点となる。投開票は１２月１日。
　立候補したのは届け出順に、吉村氏、金村龍那衆院議員（４５）＝比例代表南関東ブロック＝、空本誠喜衆院議員（６０）＝広島４区＝、松沢成文参院議員（６６）＝神奈川選挙区。立候補の届け出は正午に締め切られ、４氏による争いが確定した。
　選挙戦は党の本拠地の大阪に地盤を持ち、知名度の高い吉村氏を軸に展開されそうだ。次の政治決戦となる参院選を来年夏に控え、自民党や他の野党との距離感を巡っても論戦が交わされるとみられる。（2024/11/17-12:20）

Hirofumi Yoshimura, co-leader of Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Innovation Party), and three others on Sunday filed their candidacies for the Dec. 1 leadership election for the opposition party.
   The leadership race comes as Nippon Ishin reduced its number of seats in the House of Representatives, the powerful lower chamber of parliament, by five to 38 in an election last month, missing its goal of becoming the country's largest opposition party.
   Yoshimura's contenders in the leadership election are Ryuna Kanemura, 45, and Seiki Soramoto, 60, both Lower House members, and Shigefumi Matsuzawa, 66, a member of the House of Councillors, the upper chamber of parliament. Yoshimura, 49, currently serves as governor of Osaka Prefecture.
   Current Nippon Ishin leader Nobuyuki Baba opted out of the race amid pressure for the party leadership to take responsibility for the losses in the Lower House election.
   Campaigns for the leadership race are expected to focus on ways to rebuild the party toward an Upper House election next summer.