The second thing that the waka-jumping provisions do is that they protect from a party merger or split situation in the middle of a parliamentary term. They don't protect from a party merger or split situation before an election, as is appropriate, and they don't hold that party merger back from contesting the election and putting their case to the voters, building power in the communities that they seek to represent. It does none of that. A merger or split in the middle of a parliamentary term lumps voters with a group that has little accountability to electors, in circumstances where they probably have a huge amount of power.