The committee’s chairman Abdul Rashid Ab Rahman said there had been many complaints that the FPTP was unfair.

“So we are studying a more proportionate system,” the former EC chairman told reporters when outlining the committee’s 15 proposals for its reforms agenda.

Before the May 9 general election, the then-opposition had criticised the system, saying it gave Barisan Nasional, which had ruled for 61 years, an unfair advantage.

According to the FPTP system, the candidate who wins the most votes will be named as the constituency’s representative. It is, however, open to the manipulation of electoral boundaries.

On replacing the EC, Abdul Rashid said the committee had proposed a framework to establish an electoral management body.

He said the body would not be referred to as a commission because “the country may not want that kind of commission”.

He assured however that it would not be a rebranding of the EC.

“We will have to call it something else, but it will run the elections based on existing laws.”

He also said the ERC felt that the Registrar of Societies (RoS) should not be tasked with registering political parties.

“When they have the power to register, they will also have the power to monitor,” he said.

“We are looking into the possibility of revoking that power from the RoS.”

The committee has two years to complete its proposals to the government.