A revision of the law on the handling of political funds is set to clear the Lower House in a vote Tuesday following one more committee session.

Ruling and opposition parties on Monday morning agreed to hold the vote on the revisions on Tuesday. On Friday, the Liberal Democratic Party, its junior coalition partner Komeito and opposition party Nippon Ishin no Kai struck a deal over the reforms, after the LDP offered compromises in a bid to expedite parliamentary debate.

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will take part in questioning at the political funds committee session, a condition the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDP) placed on agreeing to an early vote.

The CDP, the Democratic Party for the People and Yushi no Kai — which had submitted their own proposal for political funding reforms — are expected to vote against the bill, along with the Japanese Communist Party.

“I think neither the original proposal nor the amendment deserve to be called 'political reform' at all,” CDP lawmaker Issei Yamagishi said Monday. “The political reform of the Reiwa Era is just an empty slogan.”

On Monday, Nippon Ishin voiced concerns about how the bill's text would look. In exchange for the party’s backing of the new proposal, the LDP had agreed to greater transparency over the use of political funds and monthly allowances offered to individual lawmakers — two of Nippon Ishin’s long-standing goals.

“If our requests are left out of the text of the law, we won’t vote in favor of the bill,” Nippon Ishin’s Hitoshi Aoyagi told a Lower House committee on political funds.

In a bid to obtain Komeito’s endorsement, the LDP also agreed to set up a third-party external commission entrusted with investigating the use of sums lawmakers receive from their party.

The prime minister had to intervene directly on Friday to break the deadlock in the discussions between the LDP, Komeito and the opposition.

At a time of languishing approval ratings, any unilateral action on political funding would risk worsening Kishida's standing with the public even further.

”We won't be able to restore trust in politics without ensuring the approval of the bill in the ongoing session of parliament,” Kishida told reporters Friday evening, stressing his commitment to political reform.

His decision doesn’t seem to have paid off for the moment — even with the LDP's compromises, the latest proposal has received a lukewarm reception.

In a JNN poll conducted over the weekend, 70% of respondents expressed a negative view of the plan, with a similar percentage disapproving of maintaining fundraising parties as a source of income for political parties — something that the LDP is keen on retaining.