国会、２４日まで延長へ　自立幹部が確認

　自民党の石井準一、立憲民主党の斎藤嘉隆両参院国対委員長は１７日、国会内で会談し、臨時国会の会期について、２４日までの延長が必要との認識で一致した。政治資金規正法の再改正など政治改革関連３法案の今国会成立を図ることを確認し、参院でも一定の審議時間を確保することを申し合わせた。与党は両氏の合意を踏まえ、２１日までの会期を延長する方針だ。
　政治改革３法案は１７日に衆院を通過し、１８日に参院で審議入りする。衆院で審議中の２法案も１９日に衆院を通過する見通しで、石井氏は記者団に、これらの法案全てを成立させるには「２４日までの延長が必要だ」と述べた。（2024/12/17-16:10）

Senior members of Japan's ruling and main opposition parties on Tuesday agreed on the need to extend the ongoing extraordinary session of the Diet, the country's parliament, for three days until Dec. 24.
   The agreement was reached at a meeting between Junichi Ishii, Diet affairs chief of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party in the House of Councillors, the upper parliamentary chamber, and his counterpart from the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, Yoshitaka Saito.
   After the meeting, Ishii told reporters that it is necessary for the Upper House to secure a certain amount of time for deliberations on three political reform-related bills likely to be approved by the House of Representatives, the lower chamber, on Tuesday.
   "We will inform the Diet affairs heads of the ruling and opposition parties in the Lower House" about the extension of the extraordinary session, which is currently scheduled to end Saturday, he said.