日本蒙面摔跤手以最高票当选川西市议员：议会准其戴面具出席、11月9日首次亮相本会议
日本兵库县川西市议会11月9日举行选举后的首次本会议，一名戴着金色面具的议员出现在议场里。他是52岁的职业摔跤手 Billyken Kid，大阪摔跤所属的覆面选手，在10月18日投开票的川西市议员选举中以4,040票、全体第一的成绩当选，是兵库县内首位蒙面摔跤手议员。
Billyken Kid 1996年出道，出身东京足立区，16年前移居川西市，长期在当地办摔跤节、探访福祉设施。这次选举定数24席、共有37名候选人，他以无所属新人身份、戴着面具竞选，得票领先第二名近1,000票。10月19日领取当选证书时他说，想回报这座城市，希望成为议会的「广告塔」，让大家对政治产生兴趣，并想以覆面姿态开展活动。
选后争议的焦点是他能不能戴着面具进议场。市议会各会派代表者会议11月6日决定允许，条件是入场前由议长等人验看素颜确认本人、须戴与竞选海报同一款面具、举止得当；在追悼、葬礼等仪式场合则不戴面具。11月9日，他按这一决定首次戴面具出席本会议。
日本此前已有蒙面摔跤手从政的先例：The Great Sasuke 曾任岩手县议员，Super Delfin 曾任大阪府和泉市议员。Billyken Kid 是这一脉络中的最新一人。
Masked Pro Wrestler Elected Top Vote-Getter in Kawanishi; Council Lets Him Wear His Mask in the Chamber
When the Kawanishi city council in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, held its first plenary session after the election on November 9, one councilor took his seat wearing a gold mask. He is Billyken Kid, a 52-year-old masked professional wrestler with Osaka Pro Wrestling who won the October 18 Kawanishi city council election with 4,040 votes, the highest total of any candidate, becoming the first masked-wrestler councilor in Hyogo Prefecture.
Billyken Kid debuted in 1996, comes from Tokyo's Adachi Ward, and moved to Kawanishi 16 years ago, where he has long organized wrestling festivals and visited welfare facilities. In the election, 37 candidates contested 24 seats; running as an unaffiliated newcomer in his mask, he finished nearly 1,000 votes ahead of the runner-up. Accepting his certificate on October 19, he said he wanted to give back to the city, hoped to serve as the council's "billboard" to draw interest in politics, and intended to work in his masked persona.
The post-election question was whether he could wear the mask in the chamber. On November 6, a meeting of the council's faction representatives decided to allow it, on conditions: his identity is verified by the speaker and others viewing his unmasked face before entry, he must wear the same mask as on his campaign posters, he must conduct himself properly, and he will not wear the mask at ceremonies such as memorials and funerals. On November 9 he attended his first plenary session in the mask under that decision.
Japan has precedents for masked wrestlers in politics: The Great Sasuke served in the Iwate prefectural assembly and Super Delfin in the Izumi city council in Osaka. Billyken Kid is the latest in that line.
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