<Li> They also recommended that the Māori seats be abolished, with Māori parties instead receiving representation if they did not pass the threshold . </Li> <Li> That the number of MPs raise to 120 (although they considered 140 would be ideal, they realised that it would receive too much public backlash). </Li> <Li> The term of Parliament be raised to four years . </Li> <Li> The Commission recommended that citizens initiated referendums not be implemented . However, they were in 1993 . </Li>

Report of the royal commission on the electoral system 1986