市民団体、杉田水脈氏辞職求め署名１３万筆　自民受け取らず

　性暴力に抗議する市民団体「フラワーデモ」は１３日、女性への性暴力をめぐり「女性はいくらでもうそをつける」と発言した自民党の杉田水脈衆院議員の辞職を求める署名約１３万６０００筆を提出するため、同党本部を訪れた。しかし、自民党側は受け取りを拒否した。
　署名は杉田氏の発言の撤回と謝罪、議員辞職を要求する内容。党側は「アポがない」として受け取りに応じなかったため、団体側は「口頭注意だけにとどまらない措置」などを求める菅義偉首相（党総裁）と二階俊博幹事長宛ての要望書を建物管理の職員に手渡した。（2020/10/13-15:31）

A citizens group has collected about 136,000 signatures in support of its petition for the resignation of Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Mio Sugita over her recent remark on sexual violence.
   Members of the group, called Flower Demo, visited the headquarters of the Japanese ruling party in Tokyo on Tuesday to submit the signatures. But the LDP refused to accept them, saying that the members had no appointment.
   Following the rejection, the Flower Demo members handed to an official in charge of managing the building a letter addressed to Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, also LDP president, and LDP Secretary-General Toshihiro Nikai, which urged the party to take action harsher than a verbal warning against Sugita.
   The group demands that Sugita apologize for saying at an LDP meeting late last month that women can "lie their heads off" about sexual violence, withdraw the remark and resign as a member of the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the Diet, Japan's parliament.
   At a press conference on Tuesday, Nikai said that in light of such a large number of signatures, the party will prod Sugita to be careful about her speech.