幹事長・福山氏、政調・泉氏　党内融和に配慮―新立憲

　新立憲民主党の枝野幸男代表（５６）は１４日午前、衆院議員会館で記者団に、幹事長に福山哲郎氏（５８）を起用すると発表した。合流に伴い解党した国民民主党からは、代表選に敗れた泉健太氏（４６）を政調会長、平野博文氏（７１）を代表代行兼選対委員長に充て、党内融和を図る。国対委員長は立憲の安住淳氏（５８）が務める。新立憲は１５日に結党大会を行う。
　枝野氏は「合流の経緯を踏まえないとスムーズな党の立ち上げ、早期解散に対応できない」と指摘。その上で「経緯を共有している皆さんでバランス良くやっていきたい」と強調した。衆院選については「１０月にもあるかもしれない」と述べた。（2020/09/14-12:02）

Yukio Edano, the first leader of a party to be created through the merger of two Japanese opposition parties this week, said Monday the new party will appoint Tetsuro Fukuyama as its secretary-general.
   Fukuyama, 58, is currently secretary-general of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, whose members will join with a majority of members of the former Democratic Party for the People to form the new party.
   Edano, 56, also decided to name Kenta Izumi, 46, as policy chief of the new party and Hirofumi Hirano, 71, as its acting leader and election strategy committee chief. By appointing the two senior lawmakers from the former DPFP, which was dissolved Friday ahead of the new party's launch, Edano apparently aims to show a conciliatory attitude toward those joining the new party from the smaller opposition party.
   Edano, head of the CDPJ, beat Izumi, then DPFP policy chief, in a recent leadership election.
   Jun Azumi, 58, CDPJ parliamentary affairs chief, will serve in the same post at the new party, which will be named "Rikkenminshuto," the same as the CDPJ's Japanese name.