安芸高田市長が辞職へ　前法相から６０万円、丸刈りに―広島

　昨夏の参院選をめぐる公選法違反事件で、広島県安芸高田市の児玉浩市長（５７）は３０日、記者会見し、先川和幸市議会議長に辞表を提出したと明らかにした。辞表は２９日付。辞職の時期は「できるだけ早い時期にということで議会の判断を仰ぎたい」と述べた。
　現金授受をめぐる首長の辞職は、同県安芸太田町の小坂真治前町長、三原市の天満祥典市長＝３０日付で辞職＝に続き３人目。

　児玉市長は辞職理由を「（市長を）継続することは市政運営に支障を来すと自ら判断した」と説明。「市民、関係者に深くおわび申し上げる」と謝罪した。辞職後については「後援会、支援者と話し合いたい」と述べるにとどまった。市によると、市長の在任期間が短いため、退職金は支給されない。
　児玉市長は衆院議員の前法相、河井克行容疑者（５７）＝自民離党＝から昨年３月と同５月の２回にわたり計６０万円の現金を受け取っていた。（2020/06/30-18:04）

Hiroshi Kodama, mayor of Akitakata in Hiroshima Prefecture, western Japan, said Tuesday he has submitted his resignation after the revelation that he received money from former Justice Minister Katsuyuki Kawai over the July 2019 House of Councillors election.
   Kodama, 57, said at a press conference that he submitted his resignation, dated Monday, to the chairman of the city assembly, Kazuyuki Sakikawa.
   "I want to ask the assembly to make a decision as early as possible," Kodama said regarding the timing of the resignation.
   He is the third head of a municipality to step down over the vote-buying scandal after Shinji Kosaka, mayor of the Hiroshima town of Akiota, and Yoshinori Tenma, mayor of Mihara, also Hiroshima.
   Kawaii, a member of the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of parliament, and his lawmaker wife were arrested earlier in June on charges of buying votes for the wife's successful campaign in the Upper House election. She ran from the Hiroshima prefectural constituency.