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Hyogo Governor Saito Motohiko will hold a regular press conference at 3:00 pm on the 18th. We will broadcast the event live. Was there any violation in Governor Saito Motohiko's election campaign? The complaint has been accepted and an investigation has begun. In the Hyogo Prefectural gubernatorial election in November this year, the president of a PR company to whom Governor Saito Motohiko's campaign paid over 700,000 yen in compensation stated in an online column that he planned, designed, and carried out the overall public relations. On the other hand, the governor claims that the compensation was for the production costs of posters permitted by the Public Offices Election Act, and that the SNS operation was a personal volunteer job by the president. However, university professors filed criminal charges against the governor and the president of the PR company, claiming that if the payment was made as compensation for online election campaigning, there is a suspicion of violation of the Public Offices Election Act, and the charges were accepted by the Hyogo Prefectural Police and the Kobe District Public Prosecutors Office on December 16th. In response to this, Governor Saito said the following on the 17th: ▼MBS NEWS HP https://www.mbs.jp/news/ ▼The latest news and special features are delivered every day. Please subscribe to our channel! https://www.youtube.com/c/MBSnewsCH?s... #SaitoMotohiko #Governor #HyogoPrefecture #RegularPressConference #MBSNews #MainichiBroadcasting