Kyodo News Agency reported on September 18 that Taro Kono, who is in charge of administrative reform in Japan, Fumio Kishida, former chairman of the Government Affairs Investigation Bureau, Sanae Takaichi, former Minister of General Affairs, and Acting Secretary General Seiko Noda attended an open discussion on the election of candidates for the president of the Liberal Democratic Party sponsored by the Japan Press Club on the 18th. The four debated energy policies such as COVID-19 countermeasures, pension systems, and nuclear power plants.
Kono pointed out about the pension system: "The minimum guaranteed pension cannot be issued by insurance premiums, which is clear from the structural point of view. He proposed that for the sake of the younger generation, the system should be maintained through a thorough reform of the system.
Kishida mentioned the need to completely curb the flow of people and ensure hospital beds and medical personnel, stressing that "First of all, I will present the overall idea of economic countermeasures on the scale of tens of trillion yen and promote it in a down-to-earth manner." ”
The LDP president election will be voted for a new president on the 29th, and the debate between the four people has begun in full swing.