Chapter 202 Headquarters
The headquarters of the Unity Alliance is located in a guild hall northwest of the National Assembly Hall. The land here is public. The Unity Alliance pays the rent of the guild hall every year to as much as 89 million yen. Not yet counted here, Unity Alliance also rents part of the parking lot of the Parliament underground parking lot to serve as the expense for its dedicated parking spaces for members.
The headquarters of the unity alone demonstrated the strength of the largest faction that controlled the majority of seats in the Congress. It was able to forge a top faction that had lasted for decades in a country with many factions. Behind this, I don’t know how many strong people and various means were used to establish such a big faction.
However, to be able to achieve the greatest faction, you can't rest assured.
It would be better to say that this is the time of real crisis.
A powerful empire can be overturned overnight in the invading army of barbarians.
You never know when the opponent that can destroy you will appear.
In fact, solidarity is facing severe challenges in the near future.
The second largest congressional rank in the Chih-Sincere Association is rising strongly. The number of seats in the House of Representatives is growing steadily. Even some traditionally believed to be the core area of the iron vote bank of the coalition, the gap between Chih-Sincere Association and the San Francisco Association is narrowing in terms of voting.
This scene is becoming more and more critical.
Many newspapers and radio stations even published comments, believing that the era of solidarity, which has long occupied a majority, will come to an end.
And the top priority now-
It is the Congress re-election in April next year.
This will be the key battle between Unity and the Xinxinhui.
At this critical moment, an incident like Eriko was discovered, and a scandal involving a donation by Terada, one of the core figures, was an absolute fatal blow to the unity and alliance.
To this end, that night, many of the united senior officials immediately convened an emergency meeting at 10:30.
A black car parked in front of the hall.
Minister of General Affairs Terada hurriedly got off the car. He glanced at his watch and it was already 10:35 and he was 5 minutes late. He quickly accelerated his pace and walked into the gate of the guild hall. Although it was night, the entire guild hall was brightly lit. Tonight's Eriko incident made every senior executive who united and alliance unable to sleep.
Climb up the stairs and arrive at the conference room on the 3rd floor.
The door to the conference room was not closed.
Looking from inside, there were about twenty people.
"Sorry, I'm late." Terada coughed slightly at the door and walked in. To be honest, Terada felt a little nervous.
This simple conference room was filled with senior officials from the East. There were even core members of the cabinet, including the Minister of Justice, Minister of Economy, Industry, Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport, and Finance. There were also senior officials who were united and allied, including the Secretary-General, the Secretary-General, the General President of the Members of the House of Commons, and the Secretary-General.
These people were waiting for Terada.
Because this Minister of General Affairs is the protagonist today.
Without him, the meeting could not begin.
The meeting was chaired by the Secretary-General Takasu and Hiroshi. A tall and thin man who was nearly 70 years old, but he didn't look as energetic as an old man.
Takasu said, "The Prime Minister and other core members of the cabinet are conducting foreign affairs visits. After they learned that there was a bomb attack in Tokyo, they were already rushing back to the country. Today's emergency meeting will be held to discuss countermeasures."
The door to the conference room was closed.
This meeting of the senior leaders of the East is held in the conference room in the united and alliance hall.
"Let me first talk about the briefing from the Metropolitan Police Department." Takasu said, "According to the latest news, the special emergency attack troops broke into the Tokyo Central Bank. 17 men have been arrested. However, that Eriko—"
Takasu hesitated for a moment, then said, "The Kyoto police took the lead in the Tokyo police and took Eriko away. He took a helicopter away from the building."
Takasu's words instantly caused restlessness in the entire conference room.
Terada couldn't help but be stunned when she was in her seat.
Kyoto Police?
It was actually the Kyoto police who took Eriko to him?!
"This means that the jurisdiction of this case is currently obtained by the Kyoto police." Takasu added, "The Tokyo police are applying for coordination and requesting a change in the detention authority."
An officer who had worked in a police officer heard it and said he was a little unbelievable, "To enforce the law in another place, you must inform the local police. The Kyoto police did this in a procedural manner, and they did not respect the local jurisdiction in Tokyo at all. How could they do this?"
Gao Xu sneered after hearing this:
"I don't know what the Kyoto police have done and have done this kind of action. However, I can tell you a detail. At the scene, all the seventeen accomplices of Eriko were interrupted!"
Hearing such details, the people present couldn't help but frown.
This way of doing things is really not like the style of a policeman.
At this time, everyone present probably wouldn't have thought of it-
Behind the initiator of all this is a lawyer named Kitahara.
Terada did not expect that there would be so many episodes in the bomb attack tonight, and that the Kyoto police and the Tokyo police would seize jurisdiction.
As a person who has been living in politics for many years, he naturally smelled the difference behind it.
The Kyoto police seized jurisdiction like this means that there was definitely some important information about Eriko.
However, it is useless to just think so.
After all, I am the one who is in the biggest trouble now
Gao Xu cleared his throat, "Anyway, long story short, this is the current situation of today's bomb attacks."
Then, the secretary-general looked at Terada at the scene.
Takasu's eyes fell on Terada, and in an instant, everyone's eyes fell on him.
This made Terada feel a little uncomfortable.
Takasu said, "Today, I believe everyone knows that Eriko has connected with Asahi Shimbun. In the live broadcast, Eriko disclosed a project for the loan transaction of Makino Ao Forestry and Mizuho Bank under the name of Terada's younger brother. The Minister of General Affairs Terada used the bank loan to fund the re-elected donation fund at the time of Congress."
"Terida, can you explain this to everyone who is united and alliance today? Is Eriko's words true?"
Terada Weiwei sorted out her collar, "I am grateful to everyone of the Unity Alliance. I have always been loyal to the Unity Alliance and are honest and dedicated to the public. The matter mentioned by Eriko is not the truth. Please organize and believe me personally!"
In the emergency meeting of the alliance—
Minister of General Affairs Terada gave the most firm denial—
Stand that everything Eriko said was false-
Chapter completed!