The opposition Democratic Party for the People (DPP) on Wednesday approved the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s revised proposal that includes a cut of 31 proportional representation seats in the House of Representatives.

The DPP had drawn up its own plan to cut 19 proportional representation seats in the all-important lower chamber of parliament, but accepted the LDP proposal because it includes the introduction of a system based on the opposition party’s proposal that would allow two or more parties to compile a joint list of proportional representation candidates.

The Japan Innovation Party, the LDP’s coalition partner, which had demanded a cut of 45 proportional representation seats, held a meeting of executives the same day and decided to accept the LDP proposal.

“Most of our opinions, except the number of seats (to be cut), were adopted (into the LDP proposal),” DPP deputy leader Motohisa Furukawa told a news conference, referring to the unified candidate list system.

Later on Wednesday,…