Tokyo, June 24 (Jiji Press)–Five major Japanese opposition parties reiterated their demands on Wednesday that parliament thoroughly discuss allegations that a secretary to Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi had been involved in creating defamatory videos targeting rivals in elections. The opposition parties requested that the secretary be summoned as an unsworn witness to testify about the allegations, the House of Representatives Budget Committee meet to discuss the scandal intensively and that political party leaders hold a debate on the matter in July. The demands were conveyed to Hiroshi Kajiyama, parliamentary affairs chief of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, by Kazuhiko Shigetoku, his counterpart from the major opposition Centrist Reform Alliance, who withheld a response. Shigetoku and Kajiyama met after a gathering of parliamentary affairs chiefs from the five opposition parties, also including the Democratic Party for the People, Sanseito, Team Mirai and the Japanese Communist Party. END [Copyright The Jiji Press, Ltd.]
Thorough Debate Sought on PM Takaichi’s Video Scandal
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