参院政倫審、２７人が出席希望　自民、年内完了目指す―裏金事件

　自民党の武見敬三参院議員会長らは２８日、立憲民主党の水岡俊一参院議員会長らと国会内で会談し、派閥裏金事件に関係した自民所属参院議員２７人全員が政治倫理審査会への出席を希望していると伝えた。自民側は年内に全員の弁明を終えられるよう協力を要請。両党幹部は日程や公開の是非について調整を進めることを確認した。
　会談には自民の松山政司参院幹事長、立民の斎藤嘉隆参院国対委員長らが同席。会談後、松山氏は記者団に「説明責任を果たし、政治活動を前に進める機会になることを期待する」と語った。斎藤氏は「裏金問題の真相解明が目的だ。みそぎ（を済ませること）が念頭なら筋違いだ」とけん制し、年明け以降も追及を続ける可能性に言及した。
　自民内では、野党の政倫審出席要求が衆院でも強まりかねないと懸念する声が出ている。（2024/11/28-17:42）

All 27 House of Councillors lawmakers involved in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's slush funds scandal wish to face a parliamentary ethics panel, it was learned Thursday.
   Keizo Takemi, the LDP's leader in the upper chamber of the Diet, Japan's parliament, told his counterpart at the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, Shunichi Mizuoka, of the 27 members' wishes and sought cooperation to complete hearings for all of them by year-end.
   "We hope this will be an opportunity to fulfill accountability and advance political activities," Masaji Matsuyama, secretary-general of the LDP in the Upper House, told reporters.
   The CDP's Upper House Diet affairs head, Yoshitaka Saito, said the chamber's ethics panel should be used for uncovering the truth about the scandal, not for lawmakers to put the scandal behind them. He hinted at possibly continuing to press the LDP-led ruling bloc on the matter after the turn of the year.
   The 27 lawmakers are among the 32 that the House of Councillors' Deliberative Council on Political Ethics called in March for questioning. Three of them attended hearings at the time, while the others declined to do so.