「権力私物化」に共同責任　野党、菅氏追及へ―自民総裁選

　自民党総裁選で優位に立つ菅義偉官房長官に対し、野党は２日、桜を見る会など「権力の私物化」が指摘された問題に安倍晋三首相とともに責任を負うとして、厳しく追及していく方針を示した。立憲民主党の安住淳国対委員長は記者団に「ずっと安倍内閣の中心にいた。森友・加計問題、公文書改ざん、桜を見る会でしっかり質疑をしていきたい」と語った。
　共産党の穀田恵二国対委員長は記者会見で「安倍氏と共同責任は免れない。菅氏は疑惑にふたをする役割をしてきた」と指摘。社民党の福島瑞穂党首は「（私物化が）今後も続くのではないか。『安倍政治』の真打ち登場だ」と強調した。国民民主党の玉木雄一郎代表は「野党として向き合う構えをつくらないと手ごわい」と述べた。（2020/09/02-20:04）

The opposition camp is poised to blame Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, the leading candidate in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's upcoming leadership election, for a series of favoritism and other scandals involving outgoing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's administration.
   Suga has been "always at the center of the Abe cabinet," Jun Azumi, parliamentary affairs chief of the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, told reporters on Wednesday. "We'll ask intensive questions" about the scandals, Azumi said.
   "He and Abe can't escape their joint responsibility" for the scandals, the Japanese Communist Party's Keiji Kokuta told a press conference, arguing that Suga "has been playing the role of containing allegations" against the Abe administration.
   Social Democratic Party leader Mizuho Fukusihma described Suga as the "headliner of Abe politics," arguing that the self-interested use of power could continue under a possible Suga administration.
   Meanwhile, Democratic Party for the People head Yuichiro Tamaki said a Suga government could be tough to deal with.