Tokyo Barrister: Start the law firm bankruptcy

Chapter 620 The Battle of the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly

"I have always done things upright and innocently." Ishiwatari puffed up his chest to meet the fierce criticism from the opposition members. "What you said about me colluding with the so-called office building developers is completely false. The reason why there is no subsidy It is given to glass curtain wall cleaning companies because directly subsidizing them will not be conducive to minimizing the cost of high-altitude operations. This is due to economic incentives.”

After Ishiwatari finished speaking, many opposition members present booed.

Obviously, such an answer did not satisfy them.

"That is to say, you think it is more reasonable to give money to developers than to workers working at high altitudes?!" the opposition congressman loudly attacked.

"Please don't be emotional. For workers who work at heights, our Shinjuku City Council has set up special hazardous work subsidies and low-cost insurance projects. Just to reduce the property management costs of office buildings, we provide owners with glass curtain wall operations. Subsidy. These two things are different. We are not biased towards developers!" Shidu replied calmly.

Councilor Shangdao has been sitting in the hall directing the questioning against Ishiwatari.

He then winked at another congressman.

The congressman understood this and immediately stood up and fired at Ishiwatari, "Mr. Ishiwatari, please explain. Of the many land use plans you have approved, 79% of the projects have procedures for subsequent re-approval or change. For example, the Huanyu Building For example, in the case of the Bolin Factory project, the environmental protection procedures for the building’s occupation of the Shinjuku City wetland were later supplemented and the procedures for building a substation next to the factory were later supplemented. Another example is the Yucheng Food Street project, which was later supplemented and added. The procedures for exiting underground fire evacuation passages have resulted in the actual underground construction area being far greater than the pre-approved area.”

The congressman slammed a thick stack of information on the table with a clang, "Mr. Ishiwatari, please tell us. Did you deliberately conceal key factors that would affect the approval when implementing the project? Then take The method of making corrections after the fact to force the implementation of projects that should not be launched!”

It's coming fiercely, like a torrential downpour.

However, Ishiwata listened to the congressman's attack and just shrugged helplessly, "Congressman, I don't know if you have relevant practical experience. After a project is planned on paper, it will happen after it is implemented. There are many problems that we did not expect before. Take what you said about the factory’s construction of substations. In fact, it is because the factory’s additional investment may cause the power load to exceed the original expectation, so it is necessary to build additional substations.”

"Is this a bad thing? Additional investment in factories will help create more jobs and tax revenue for Shinjuku City, making our Shinjuku City more competitive."

"We are not almighty gods. We cannot predict all situations that will occur in a project through pre-planning. Our procedures for post-incident corrections just show that we are solving problems pragmatically." Ishiwatari replied.

The reporters at the venue gradually began to realize the power of the vice-chairman of the Shinjuku City Development Committee.

They did not expect that the staff of a local city hall would have such outstanding eloquence and brains.

It seems that there is a reason why Ishiwatari was able to work in the government agency before.

Soon, another council member launched a counterattack, "Mr. Ishiwatari, I would like to ask you to pay attention to the way you approve public projects. Why, you did not follow the rules of one project for discussion, one project for one batch, but adopted a large number of bundled approvals Method. By bundling several expenditure items together for approval, your development committee is fishing in troubled waters!"

"Moreover, most of the members of your development committee come from important officials from various departments of the city hall. Do you violate the standard process that each department should first discuss the procedures internally before making decisions? Are you trying to replace the decision-making of the development committee with the decision-making of the development committee? The decisions of various departments of the city hall! Are your processes and procedures seriously violating the law?”

Another extremely serious allegation was made.

The issue of tying the approval and development committee members is indeed a major flaw in Shinjuku City’s public spending.

Whether the expenditure itself is reasonable or not is irrelevant. However, if standard procedures for discussion and decision-making are violated, that is a serious offense.

Shidu was still calm. After thinking for a moment, he replied: "Our Shinjuku City Development Committee has always pursued legality of procedures and prompt response to decision-making. Indeed, some of our public expenditure projects are bundled together for approval, and none of them are One discussion. However, these bundled projects are highly related and belong to the same investment project, and are actually inseparable. We believe that we have done nothing wrong in bundling the approvals, which takes into account the actual conditions of the projects themselves. Features.”

"As for the issue of the composition of our Development Committee that the congressman mentioned. In fact, the organizational structure of the Development Committee is a strategy proposed by the current cabinet to deal with organizational rigidity. The composition of our Development Committee is in line with the guidelines issued by the Cabinet. If you think it’s inappropriate, please don’t question our Shinjuku City Hall staff. Please question the cabinet!”

Ishiwatari fought back extremely forcefully.

Throughout the questioning, he did not fall behind in the slightest.

During the rounds of questioning from several members of Congress, Ishiwatari responded with ease and ease.

It turned out that Ishiwatari had been questioned by the media about his financial route in Shinjuku City. However, during this question at the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly, many media reporters and the public were moved by his demeanor.

Shidu looked at the information in his hand.

Although he knew he looked cool on the outside, he still had weaknesses.

This weakness is Shinjuku City’s high-tech industrial park project.

But fortunately, most of the MPs who asked questions today did not pay attention.

After all, no one may have thought that such a project that was used as a front would actually have problems.

Just as the questioning was coming to an end, Councilor Shangdao, who had been directing, suddenly stood up. He looked coldly at Shidu on the stage. Shangdao is a person who is good at confusing his opponents. His favorite is to lure the tiger away from the mountain and attack in the east and west. The previous wars between many opposition members were just to confuse the other party.

Now it's time to draw the real sword.

Representative Ueshima's voice sounded in the hall of the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly:

"Mr. Ishiwatari. Please explain your relationship with Ms. Erizo."

This question suddenly exploded like thunder.

(End of this chapter)