The ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Thursday presented a compromise proposal to cut the number of proportional representation seats in the House of Representatives by 31.

The new proposal was shown at a meeting among nine political parties on election system reform for the all-important lower chamber of parliament.

The LDP and its coalition partner, the Japan Innovation Party, submitted to the special Diet session that ended in July a bill to automatically reduce the number of Lower House proportional representation seats by 45, or about 10% of all 465 seats in the chamber, unless the ruling and opposition parties reach agreement within a year.…