加藤官房長官の出席要求　閉会中審査、学術会議問題で―立憲

　立憲民主党の安住淳国対委員長は５日午前、自民党の森山裕国対委員長と会談し、菅義偉首相が日本学術会議の会員候補を任命拒否した問題に関し、７日の衆院内閣委員会の閉会中審査で取り上げる考えを伝えた。その上で、加藤勝信官房長官か学術会議を所管する井上信治科学技術担当相の出席を要求した。
　これに対し、森山氏は「説明責任を政府側に求めているので、委員会での議題とすることについては検討したい」と述べ、６日に返答する考えを伝えた。（2020/10/05-11:47）

The Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan plans to take up the issue of controversial appointments rejection by Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga for the Science Council of Japan at an off-session parliamentary committee meeting on Wednesday, a CDPJ executive said Monday.
   Jun Azumi, Diet affairs chief of the biggest Japanese opposition party, conveyed the plan to Hiroshi Moriyama, his counterpart in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.
   Azumi demanded that Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato or science and technology minister Shinji Inoue, who oversees the SCJ, attend the meeting of the Committee on Cabinet at the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the Diet, Japan's parliament.
   In response, Moriyama said he would like to consider raising the issue at the meeting as the ruling party is seeking accountability from the government. He said he will give an answer to the request on Tuesday.
   The request from the opposition side came after Suga rejected the appointments of six nominees to the SCJ, an affiliate of the Cabinet Office.