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US Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry has unveiled a plan for a flat tax rate of 20% for incomes and companies.

Radio New Zealand political reporter Julian Robins looks at the First Past the Post and Preferential Voting systems ahead of the referendum.

The Green Party is hoping for its best result yet and is polling strongly going into the general election on 26 November. Audio

The referendum on the electoral system will give voters the chance to endorse or reject MMP and consider what system might replace it. Radio New Zealand political reporter Julian Robins profiles MMP.

The release this week of the pre-election economic and fiscal update has given a clear context to the political debate which will run until 25 November, the day before the election.

Tunisia's moderate Islamist party Ennahda has claimed victory in the country's first democratic elections.

A huge turnout has been reported from Tunisia's election, the first free vote in the Arab world since the start of the Arab Spring uprisings.

Voting has begun in Tunisia in the first free election of the Arab Spring, nine months after the fall of former President Zinedine el Abidine Ben Ali.

Counting is complete, more than 24 hours after polls closed, in the first round of the Kiribati parliamentary election. Candidates need to win 50 percent of the vote in the...

The ACT Party's survival in Parliament could now rely on how strongly the National Party and its leader John Key wants it to happen.

The polls have closed in today's first round of voting in the Kiribati parliamentary election. Up to 40 thousand people have been voting for the country's 44 MPs. MW reports...

People are waiting up to two hours to vote at some stations on the main Kiribati town of Betio." Kiribati is today holding the first round of its parliamentary election.

There have been complaints about the slow pace of voting in parliamentary elections at polling stations in Betio in Kiribati.

There have been complaints that voting is going slowly at polling stations in Betio in Kiribati. Kiribati is holding the first round of its parliamentry elections today. Megan Whelan is...

A Kiribati development worker says economic issues are key questions being focussed on as the country heads in to today's general election. Kiribati goes to the polls today for the...

Voting is underway in the first round of the Kiribati general election. Voters are choosing from 137 candidates for the more than 40 seats in Parliament. About 40-thousand people have...

A prominent Kiribati opposition politician says he believes his party will win enough seats to nominate a candidate for President. Kiribati goes to the polls today, in the first of...

A candidate who has withdrawn at the last minute from the Kiribati election says people are more interested in the cost of living than issues of climate change. Kiribati goes...

A first time candidate in the Kiribati election says people need higher wages to keep up with the cost of living. Kiribati goes to the polls on Friday for the...

Voting on two of Kiribati's islands will be put off until Monday, because of delays in delivering ballot papers. Kiribati goes to the polls on Friday for the first round...

Former French Socialist party chief Francoise Hollande has won the nomination to be the Socialist candidate in next April's presidential election.

Campaigning heats up in Kiribati this week, as the country goes to the polls on Friday. 138 candidates, including 12 women, are standing in 44 seats. Megan Whelan reports "Some...