Overview
- LDP secretary-general Shunichi Suzuki said the ruling camp aims to pass the bill within the current Diet session without an extension and urged prompt deliberations.
- Suzuki and Japan Innovation Party secretary-general Hiroshi Nakatsukasa met and reaffirmed continued efforts to secure enactment during this session.
- Opposition parties remain focused on political-donation legislation, and the House Political Reform Special Committee has not begun considering the proposal.
- The bill includes an automatic trigger to reduce 45 Lower House seats—25 single-member and 20 proportional—if no electoral-system agreement is reached within one year of enforcement.
- Former LDP leader Shigeru Ishiba criticized the plan as hasty and questioned the government’s rice coupon initiative as a use of tax funds, underscoring internal and external pushback.