Articles in ‘Election’

The New Zealand Outdoors & Freedom Party (NZOFP) is proud to announce the appointment of Lester Bryant as the party’s Energy Spokesperson and List Candidate for the upcoming election. Bringing decades of high-level technical expertise and a "numbers-first" approach to policy, Bryant will also contest an Auckland electorate (to be confirmed). Originally from South Taranaki, Bryant’s career is rooted in the practical realities of New Zealand’s…

The Ukrainian leader reiterated he was open to a vote but cited a litany of perceived obstacles · Vladimir Zelensky. © Getty Images · [RT] Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has suggested that Kiev’s backers could be pressing him to hold elections as a pretext to force him out of power. Zelensky’s presidential term expired in 2024, at which point Russia began declaring him “illegitimate.” · In an interview released by the BBC on Sunday,…

The Free Speech Union has written to Speaker of the House, Rt Hon. Gerry Brownlee after the @NZParliament account announced today that it "will no longer be posting updates on X," abandoning a platform used by nearly one million New Zealanders in an election year. · X has approximately 933,000 users in New Zealand, representing over 22% of adults. New Zealand ranks first globally for average session time on the platform. Parliament's…

The Ukrainian leader is apparently gauging support for a vote that he swore he’d never hold · https://www.rt.com/op-ed/authors/rt-newsroom/By RT newsroom -Vladimir Zelensky makes a speech during a press conference in Kiev, Ukraine, April 22, 2025 ©  Danilo Antoniuk / Anadolu via Getty Images · Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky’s team has floated and later rejected the idea of holding an election this summer. Like much of…

Sanae Takaichi will be able to push through a right-wing agenda now that the Liberal Democratic Party has a supermajority in the lower house · ©  Kim Kyung-Hoon / Getty Images · [RT] Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) led by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi scored a landslide victory in snap parliamentary elections on Sunday. · With a two-thirds majority in the lower house, secured together with coalition partners,…

The Ukrainian leader has floated another presidential run although martial law continues to block a vote · Ukraine's Vladimir Zelensky. © Getty Images / Artur Widak/NurPhoto · Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has suggested he may seek another term as president, while his government has moved to extend martial law and general mobilization for another three months, again preventing national elections. · In a wide-ranging…

Shahid Butt has urged his young supporters to knock their enemies’ “teeth out” · Shahid Butt speaks to the Core LIbrary podcast, 2025 © YouTube / Core Library · [RT] A convicted Islamist terrorist is running for local office in the British city of Birmingham. Shahid Butt has urged voters to overlook his past “mistakes,” which include conspiring to bomb the British consulate in Yemen. · In an interview with Birmingham Live this week, Butt…

Wellington — Winston Peters has used the first sitting of Parliament in the 2026 election year to deliver a wide-ranging and combative address, sharply criticising the former Labour-Green Government’s economic record while positioning New Zealand First as a party of experience, delivery, and “real-world” governance. Speaking after opposition leaders’ contributions, Peters said the moment called for vision, credibility and confidence, but…

Despite talk of cross-party cooperation, polling suggests Te Pāti Māori may not be needed to form the next government, leaving the party pitching flexibility from a position of diminished leverage ahead of the 2026 election. Summarised by Centrist · Speaking at Rātana, co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer said she could work with Winston Peters and New Zealand First, floating the idea of cooperation across ideological lines. · The comments come as…

Erin Gourley left New Zealand in 2024 for Europe, and says there's a 'huge risk' of New Zealanders forgetting to vote _ even if they're politically minded. Former local government reporter Erin Gourley forgot to vote in last year’s council elections. She was living in Sweden, where she moved to study law in 2024. Now registered as an overseas voter, Gourley says she won’t be making that mistake again. “It’s crazy, because I used to be a local…