Japan PM's Party Proposes Fewer Seat Cuts than Coalition Partner Seeks
The proposal would favor smaller parties and could help the coalition secure opposition support for other measures.
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Japan PM's party proposes fewer seat cuts than coalition partner seeks
Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Thursday proposed a compromise plan that would cut fewer Diet seats than its junior coalition partner seeks and introduce a proportional seat allocation system more favorable to smaller parties.
On the 23rd, Taku Yamazoe, policy chairman of the Japanese Communist Party, held a press conference in the Diet building. He dismissed the Liberal Democratic Party's proposal to reduce the number of House of Representatives seats by 31 through proportional representation alone as "irrational."
On October 22, 2026, Akira Koike, Secretary-General of the Communist Party, reacted on X to reports that the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) had proposed a compromise plan to reduce the number of proportional representation seats in the House of Representatives election system by 31. He questioned, "Japan has the third-lowest number of Diet members among the 38 OECD countries, so why reduce them?" and opposed the reduction in the number of seats.…
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