杉田副長官、審議会人事に介入　前川元文科次官が証言

　菅義偉首相が日本学術会議の新会員候補６人の任命を拒否した問題に関し、前川喜平元文部科学事務次官は１３日、立憲民主党などの野党合同ヒアリングに出席した。前川氏は事務次官を務めていた２０１６年の文化功労者選考分科会委員の選任の際、杉田和博官房副長官に人事案の差し替えを指示されたことを明らかにした。
　前川氏によると、１６年８月ごろに委員のリストを杉田副長官に提出したところ、１週間ほど後に呼び出され、２人の差し替えを命じられた。前川氏は「杉田氏から『こういう政権を批判するような人物を入れては困る』とお叱りを受けた」と証言し、実際に別の人物を選び直したと説明した。（2020/10/13-18:14）

Japanese Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Kazuhiro Sugita intervened in the appointments of members of a Council for Cultural Affairs subdivision in 2016, former vice education minister Kihei Maekawa said Tuesday.
   Maekawa made the statement at a joint hearing by opposition parties, including the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, over Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's controversial rejection of the appointments of six nominees recommended by the Science Council of Japan as its members.
   According to Maekawa, he was summoned by Sugita about a week after submitting a list of candidates for the subdivision around August 2016. Sugita told the then vice minister to change two candidates.
   "Sugita reprimanded me, saying, 'It's not good to appoint people who criticize the government,'" Maekawa said, adding that the education ministry replaced the two candidates with new ones.
   Of the two, one was in the academic world and the other in the cultural field. Their activities included participation in a group of scholars opposing the controversial national security legislation and criticism of the administration of then Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Suga's predecessor, according to Maekawa.