Prime Minister Kishida has announced that he intends to take action against the members of the party involved within the next week regarding the issue surrounding the political funding party of a faction of the Liberal Democratic Party. Opposition parties have been increasingly critical of the lack of progress in clarifying the facts, and are poised to continue pursuing the matter, including calling for the subpoena of Abe faction leaders and others as witnesses.
Following the passage of the new fiscal year budget, Prime Minister Kishida held a press conference on the night of the 28th, saying, ``This year, we will definitely achieve incomes that exceed price increases.And from next year onwards, we will definitely ensure that wage increases that exceed price increases become established.'' I emphasized. In addition, the party announced its intention to take action against the relevant members of the Liberal Democratic Party as early as next week regarding the issue surrounding the political funding party of a faction of the Liberal Democratic Party.
``We will comprehensively judge the status of efforts to restore trust, including the amount and extent of the undisclosed amount, his position as a politician, his career as a politician, and how he fulfills his accountability.'' I would like to take strict action after that."
The party executive has so far punished four executives who discussed the handling of kickbacks from the Abe faction with punishments beyond ``non-official recognition in elections,'' and mid-ranking and young people who received kickbacks at the direction of the faction. The policy is to issue a reprimand.
Furthermore, given that there are voices within the party that ``other than the four former general secretary generals cannot be exempted from responsibility,'' we are accelerating consideration of who should be subject to harsh punishment.
In response, Representative Izumi of the Constitutional Democratic Party stated, ``Even though we should have been discussing the budget, the Liberal Democratic Party created a situation where we were forced to spend time pursuing the ``slush funds'' issue and did not tell the truth.'' .
Opposition parties have been increasingly critical of the lack of progress in clarifying the facts, and are poised to continue pursuing the matter, including calling for the subpoena of Abe faction leaders and others as witnesses.
Meanwhile, the focus of the second half of the Diet session will be on amending the Political Funds Control Act. A special committee to discuss political reform that will soon be set up in the National Diet will introduce a ``co-conciliation system'' in which members of the Diet will be held responsible if there is a false entry in the income and expenditure report, as well as digitizing the income and expenditure report. , it is expected that tougher penalties and improved transparency of funds will be considered.