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Regarding the reduction of the number of members of the House of Representatives, the secretaries-general of the three parties of the Liberal Democratic Party, the Japan Restoration Association, and the National Democratic Party met and formally agreed to reduce the number of seats by 31 with proportional representation. He said that he would jointly submit a bill to the current Diet to pass it.
Japanese public opinion
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Positive / Negative toward: the LDP, Ishin and DPFP deal to cut 31 proportional House seats
Positive points
A good first step, but I hope they keep cutting seats from here.
Scrap proportional seats and dual candidacy altogether; that's the real fix.
Settling on 31 seats instead of the automatic 45 cut was the better outcome.
Negative points
Cutting only proportional seats favors the big parties and could pave the way for one-party rule.
The DPFP betrayed its voters by going along with the LDP.
Smaller parties like Sanseito and the Communists will get squeezed out by this.
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