国家公務員法、再提出先送り　通常国会で成立目指す―政府・与党

　政府・与党は７日、国家公務員の定年を６５歳へ段階的に引き上げる国家公務員法改正案について、２６日召集の臨時国会への再提出を見送る方針を固めた。複数の政府関係者が明らかにした。検察官の定年延長を盛り込んだ検察庁法改正案と共に、来年１月召集の通常国会で成立を目指す。
　これに関し、政府高官は「新型コロナウイルスで（国民生活が）大変なときに、国家公務員の定年延長が理解を得られるのか」と理由を説明した。
　両改正案は、先の通常国会に「束ね法案」として提出された。しかし、黒川弘務東京高検検事長（当時）の定年延長を事後的に正当化し、検察人事への首相官邸の介入を可能にすると批判を招き、廃案に追い込まれた。（2020/10/07-23:31）

Japan's government and ruling bloc will give up the resubmission of a bill to raise national civil servants' retirement to an extraordinary parliamentary session seen to be convened on Oct. 26, government sources said Wednesday.
   They aim to make sure that the bill to revise the national civil service law to realize the retirement age hike to 65 in stages, as well as a bill to amend the Public Prosecutors Office law for raising prosecutors' retirement age, at next year's regular session of the Diet, Japan's parliament, slated to begin in January, the sources said.
   "At a time when the novel coronavirus epidemic is hurting people's lives, can we obtain public support for raising the retirement age for government employees?" a senior government official said, citing the reason for deferring the resubmission of the national civil service law amendment.
   The two bills were submitted to this year's regular Diet session, which ended in June. But they were scrapped amid criticism that the revision would retroactively justify the retirement age hike for Hiromu Kurokawa, then superintending prosecutor at the Tokyo High Public Prosecutors Office, and make it possible for the prime minister's office to meddle in prosecutor appointments.
   The government and the Liberal Democratic Party-led ruling camp apparently believe that enacting the national civil service law amendment during the coming extraordinary Diet session is difficult in the current political landscape.