Mayor Yayoi Kimura of Tokyo’s Koto Ward explains about the problem of posting paid advertisements.
Ward Mayor Yayoi Kimura, who was elected for the first time in the Mayoral election of Tokyo’s Koto Ward in April, held a press conference in the ward on the 4th regarding the problem that paid advertisements were running on the Internet during the election period. He explained that the supporters had run the paid ads alone, and apologized, saying, “It was my lack of supervision.
According to Shizuo Kasahara, a lawyer who investigated the circumstances at the request of the ward mayor, he denied the ward mayor’s involvement, while saying, “It’s hard to deny the possibility that the paid advertisement violates the Public Offices Election Law.”
The video has been viewed about 370,000 times. The publication fee was 270,000 yen, but was corrected to about 170,000 yen.
According to the lawyer, before the election, supporters asked for a video to be posted on social networking sites (SNS), and the ward mayor agreed. In June after the election, he said that his supporters consulted with the ward mayor when they realized that he was in danger of violating the public election law.
During the election period, the video in question was posted as a paid advertisement on the video posting site “YouTube”, and the mayor himself appeared. It was calling for votes with a telop saying, “Please vote for Yayoi Kimura.” The Public Election Law prohibits paid online advertisements for election campaigns during the election period.
At the conference, lawyer Kasahara mainly explained, and mayor Kimura left the conference at the end of the conference on the grounds of official duties.
Hayato Kojima, former head of the Kawasaki City Elections Bureau and representative director of the Election System Practical Study Group, said, “If it’s an act of the camp, we can’t get away with not knowing about it. The mayor himself can’t escape his moral responsibility.” pointed out. (Masanori Inoue)
2023-08-04 12:49:41
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