ACT Party leader David Seymour has called a report proposing major changes to New Zealand's political landscape a "left-wing beat-up"
But on the other side of the political spectrum, the Green Party welcomes the recommendations - calling them "common sense".
On Tuesday, an independent panel reviewing New Zealand's electoral system published a set of draft recommendations, including lowering the party vote threshold, having a public referendum on a four-year term and bringing the voting age down to 16.
The report was labelled a "once-in-a-generation opportunity" to modernise New Zealand's electoral system and ensure it is fairer and more accessible.
But Seymour thinks it is a "waste of everyone's time" and doesn't agree with any of the recommendations in the report.
"This entire report is a major left-wing beat-up that doesn't solve a single urgent problem that New Zealanders face," Seymour told AM.
The draft recommendations are out for public consultation. A final report will then be produced by the end of November.
It will be then up to the then-Government to choose how to move forward with it.
"These reports come out every three years and, unfortunately, the can is kicked further and further down the road, and politicians don't want anything to do with it because it doesn't necessarily affect their immediate priorities," Green MP Chlöe Swarbrick told AM, appearing alongside Seymour.
Swarbrick said the recommendations in the report, many of which the Greens have long been pushing for, show its "common sense" reform is needed.
"Our Westminster Parliamentary system is not the system that you would design if you wanted to solve the problems of our time, let alone meaningfully grapple with them. So there are changes that are necessary."
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