自民、政活費廃止を了承　企業・団体献金禁止盛らず―規正法、年内再改正目指す

　自民党は２１日、石破茂首相（党総裁）も出席して政治改革本部の総会を党本部で開き、政治資金規正法の再改正について議論した。使途が不透明だとして批判の強い政策活動費の廃止を柱とする案を執行部が提示し、了承された。与野党協議を経て、２８日召集の臨時国会に改正案を提出し、成立させたい考えだ。
　森山裕幹事長は立憲民主、日本維新の会、国民民主、共産各党などに協議を呼び掛けた。自民案は立民や維新が主張する企業・団体献金の禁止に触れておらず、協議は難航する可能性もある。（2024/11/21-20:34）

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Thursday broadly approved a plan to abolish the policy activity funds that political parties provide to member lawmakers, amid criticism of a lack of transparency in the use of the funds.
   The plan was included in a draft revision of the political funds control law presented by the LDP leadership at the day's general meeting of the party's political reform headquarters in the presence of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, also LDP president.
   After holding talks with the opposition camp on the issue, the LDP aims to submit and enact a bill to revise the law at an extraordinary session of the Diet to be convened on Nov. 28.
   The talks with the opposition camp may not go smoothly, however, as the LDP draft does not mention a possible ban on political donations by companies and other organizations, which is advocated by opposition parties including the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Innovation Party).
   During the two-hour meeting, which was attended by about 90 LDP lawmakers, Ishiba said, "We received a lot of criticism (over a high-profile political funds scandal involving LDP factions) from the people in the House of Representatives election (in October)." The LDP-Komeito coalition lost its Lower House majority in the election.