石崎議員、自民を離党　暴行罪で略式起訴

　自民党は２２日、石崎徹衆院議員（３６）＝比例代表北陸信越ブロック＝が同日提出した離党届を受理した。石崎氏は当時秘書だった男性を殴ったとして、新潟区検から先に暴行罪で略式起訴されていた。
　離党届の提出後、石崎氏は記者団に「ご迷惑をお掛けした。自分なりのけじめの付け方として判断した」と語った。党新潟県連は同氏に厳正な処分を下すよう要請。２２日は党本部の決定に先立ち、党紀委員会で受理することが了承された。
　石崎氏は財務省勤務を経て、２０１２年の衆院選新潟１区で初当選。これまで比例復活を含め３回連続で当選している。１９年４月、新潟市内を走行中の自動車内で男性の後頭部を殴り、同５月にもこめかみ付近を殴ったとされる。（2020/10/22-17:29）

Japanese lawmaker Toru Ishizaki on Thursday offered to leave the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, following his indictment for his suspected assault of a then secretary.
   "I have decided to leave the party to take responsibility" for the incident, Ishizaki, 36, a member of the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the Diet, Japan's parliament, told reporters after submitting a letter of resignation from the party to the office of the LDP secretary-general.
   A local public prosecutors office in Niigata Prefecture, central Japan, on Monday issued a summary indictment against Ishizaki for allegedly assaulting the male secretary.
   The LDP's Niigata prefectural chapter is urging the party's headquarters in Tokyo to take strict action against Ishizaki. At a meeting of its ethics committee later on Thursday, the LDP will discuss punishment against him and what to do with his resignation letter.
   Ishizaki, a native of Niigata and former bureaucrat of the Finance Ministry, won his first parliamentary seat in the 2012 Lower House election, running in the poll from a constituency in the prefecture. He is now in his third consecutive term as a Lower House member. In the latest Lower House election in October 2017, Ishizaki obtained a seat on the chamber under the proportional representation system.