There are three outstanding matters that parliament’s home affairs committee has to decide upon before it can finalise its deliberations on the Electoral Amendment Bill.

These are the number of signatures that independent candidates will require to be able to contest an election; whether independent candidates can stand in more than one region; and whether there should be a cooling-off period for members of political parties who want to stand as independent candidates...

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