Independent Electoral Review Final Report Executive Summary and List of Recommendations [pdf, 655 KB]
...arrangements and international and domestic human rights obligations within which our electoral law must operate. This context informed our approach to the review and our recommendations. 7. Aotearoa New Zealand’s constitutional arrangements provide checks and balances by one branch of the government against another. Under Aotearoa New Zealand's constitutional arrangements, members of the executive must be members of parliament. This requirement gives the executive branch a power...