Participation in a meeting with a Miyagi / Liberal Prefectural Assembly liquor table explodes criticism of “Sweet Armpits” | Hebei Shinpo Online News

Participation in a meeting with a Miyagi liquor table / Infection of the Liberal Democratic Prefecture Assembly

A total of 10 members were found to be infected and workers were heading to the disinfection of the Miyagi Prefecture Assembly Building = around 1:40 pm on the 23rd

An outbreak of the novel coronavirus was discovered in the Miyagi Prefectural Assembly (59 fixed number, 2 vacancies), the largest group “Liberal Party / Prefectural Council” (32 members). Eight positives were found on the 23rd, bringing the total number of infected legislators to 10. Fourteen people, including four negative people who had contact, are believed to have attended the 17th meeting with a liquor table, and are expected to are absent from the regular November meeting, which begins on the 25th, for the time being. A colleague said, “I feel relaxed” and “I need to explain the circumstances of the infection.”
In the Liberal Democratic Party, it was found that a male member in his 60s in Osaki city was infected on the 21st and a male member in his 50s in the city of Okawara in the same prefecture on the 22nd. PCR of 55 legislators on the same day revealed the spread of the infection within the sect. The prefecture says it is “under investigation”, but the possibility of a group (infected population) cannot be ruled out.
Tomoyuki Murakami, chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party, apologized: “We have taken comprehensive measures against the infection, but as a result, we were not careful enough.” The sect has just renewed the personnel affairs of officials such as the president and the secretary general on the 1st. Old and new agents are said to have had multiple opportunities to take over and eat and drink without masks. Murakami said, “I want to take criticism seriously.”
One member of the Diet who was found infected explained: “I have more opportunities to talk to other members for longer than usual.” Another legislator dropped his shoulder and said, “It can’t be helped if you say the side is sweet.”
The opinions of other factions called for efforts to investigate the cause and prevent a recurrence. Kazuhiro Ito, president of the prefectural assembly of the Komei Party (4 members), which constitutes the prefectural government and the ruling party that supports Governor Yoshihiro Murai together with the PLD, said: “The conscience of the entire assembly. More comprehensive action is needed than ever. “
Toshiro Ota, general secretary of the second party “Voice of the citizens of Miyagi prefecture” (10 people) as the Constitutional Democratic Party, stressed that “as the representative of the citizens of the prefecture, we must respond firmly.” Kazutoshi Miura, leader of the Prefectural Assembly of the Communist Party (five members), said that “he is responsible to the citizens of the prefecture why the infection was concentrated in the PLD.”
The September regular meeting, which attracted attention for its pros and cons for the restart of unit 2 of Tohoku Electric Power Megawa Nuclear Power Plant (Megawa City, Miyagi Prefecture, Ishimaki City), has ended. . Be. “President Kojiro Ishikawa said:” The prefectural assembly has a wide range of political activities in addition to parliamentary activities. We must be even more careful. “
On the current situation in which politicians are infected one after another in the prefecture, Governor Murai said: “If government officials are infected, it will affect various social activities. It is important for everyone to be careful.”

Tuesday, November 24, 2020