官房長官に加藤厚労相　派閥バランス型の自民新四役、午後決定

The new four roles of the faction-balanced Liberal Democratic Party

On the 15th, the new president of the Liberal Democratic Party, Yoshihide Suga, decided to appoint the new Chief Cabinet Secretary, Katsunobu Kato, Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare. Mr. Suga was nominated as the new prime minister at the extraordinary Diet session on the 16th, and the new cabinet will be established after the prime minister appointment ceremony at the Imperial Palace and the ministerial certification ceremony. At the extraordinary general affairs meeting on the afternoon of the 15th, the Liberal Democratic Party will officially decide on the new four officials, including the continuation of Toshihiro Nikai.

In the ministerial personnel affairs, Taro Aso, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister (79), Toshimitsu Motegi, Foreign Minister (64), Kazuyoshi Akaba, Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (62), and Seiko Hashimoto, Minister for the Olympics (55), have decided to reappoint.

Mr. Suga intends to reappoint Deputy Secretary-General Kazuhiro Sugita (79), who will be the top bureaucrat.

In the personnel affairs of party officers, Mr. Nikai will continue to be cast, and Hakubun Shimomura, the chairman of the election, will be appointed as the chairman of the general affairs, Tsutomu Sato, the former Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications (68), and Taimei Yamaguchi, the head of the organizational movement headquarters (71), as the chairman of the election. Hiroshi Moriyama vs. Chairman (75) = Ishihara faction, Motoo Hayashi, Deputy Secretary-General (73), former Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications Seiko Noda (60) acting as Secretary-General, and Former Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera (60) ) Is appointed.

Mr. Suga will call the new four roles such as Mr. Nikai to the party headquarters before the extraordinary general affairs meeting on the afternoon of the 15th and request him to take office. With the approval of the Board of Governors, the new four roles will all attend the press conference. After that, Mr. Suga will meet with Komeito representative Natsuo Yamaguchi in the Diet and sign an agreement to establish a coalition government.

Mr. Suga has denied "faction-balanced personnel" in the presidential election, but in the party officer personnel, the main posts are evenly allocated to the five factions that supported him, and the balance is taken into consideration.