Parliamentary elections were held in Kiribati on 22 August 2007 and 30 August 2007, within 23 constituencies (electoral districts) to elect 44 MPs (43,000 citizens vote). Two other MPs are ''ex officio'' members (not elected). There were 146 candidates in the first round, including all 44 sitting MPs, among them President Anote Tong.Phil Mercer
"Kiribati voters go to the polls"
BBC News, 22 August 2007. Most of them represent

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Protect the Maneaba Protect the Maneaba ( gil, Maneaban te Mauri) is a political party in Kiribati created by the merger of the National Progressive Party and the Christian Democratic Party. At the last presidential elections of July 4, 2003, its candidate Harry Tong ...

. The main issues were education and employment.

Results

Eighteen seats were decided in the first round (including that of Tong, who was overwhelmingly re-elected). Tong's

and allies independents got twelve of the eighteen seats. For the twenty-six seats where no candidate received a majority, a second round was held on 30 August.

References

External links

Parliament of Kiribati - Members
(on the Parliament of Kiribati's official website)

(on TSKL.net

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) Parliamentary elections in Kiribati Kiribati Parliamentary Election and referendum articles with incomplete results {{Oceania-election-stub