A member of Fiji's Sodelpa Party, Dr Tupeni Baba, says foreign assistance for the elections should come with conditions attached.
The Fiji government has accepted offers of help from several overseas countries and organisations including New Zealand and Papua New Guinea and it has engaged a multinational committee to make sure foreign help is co-ordinated.
But Dr Baba says that help should not be without pressure on the regime to ensure the elections are free and fair.
"They should insist very clearly in the way they're giving assistance they must be subject to certain controls, certain conditions, certain independence of the running of the elections, the involvement of the people who might be invited to observe."
Dr Baba says Fiji needs a long-term group of foreign observers to come in well before and stay well after the elections, not just a week-long mission.
