河井夫妻事件で解明チーム　野党

　立憲民主党など野党４党は２４日の国対委員長会談で、河井克行前法相夫妻が逮捕された公職選挙法違反事件の実態解明チーム設置を決めた。週内に初会合を開き、自民党本部が夫妻側に送金した１億５０００万円と買収資金の関連や安倍晋三首相の関与を調査していくとしている。
　立憲の安住淳国対委員長は記者団に「１億５０００万円は首相の了解を得ずして出るものではない。首相がどこまで選挙に関わったかは自民党員も興味があると思う」と語った。
　衆院経済産業委員会の閉会中審査が２４日に開かれ、立憲が事件を取り上げたところ、与党側が新型コロナウイルス感染拡大に関する議論を行うべきだと反発し、審議が一時中断した。（2020/06/24-12:21）

The Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and three other opposition parties decided Wednesday to launch a joint team this week to look into a campaign scandal involving former Justice Minister Katsuyuki Kawai and his wife, Anri.
   The opposition team will focus on the transfer of 150 million yen from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party to the Kawai side ahead of the 2019 House of Councillors election, in which Anri Kawai won a seat of the Hiroshima constituency in western Japan.
   The Kawais were arrested last week for allegedly distributing cash to local politicians and others to gain their support for the wife's election campaign. Both resigned from the LDP before their arrests, but remain as lawmakers.
   The opposition team will investigate whether there was a link between the 150-million-yen transfer and the cash distribution, and whether Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, president of the LDP, was involved in the matter.
   "It seems unlikely that the 150 million yen was transferred without the prime minister's approval," CDPJ parliamentary affairs chief Jun Azumi told reporters on Wednesday.