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"I'm hoping to get at least 55% of the votes for president," says opposition candidate and leader of the Democratic Green Party Frank Habineza, after casting his ballot in Kigali. This as incumbent candidate, President Paul Kagame, is widely expected to win another term and extend his iron-fisted rule for another five years. In 2017 Habineza won just 0.48 percent of the vote. Millions of Rwandans are voting in the general elections to select a president and parliamentary lawmakers. SOUNDBITE
Iran's Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei casts his vote as polls open for the second round of the presidential election following the death of ultraconservative president Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash last month. IMAGES
Presidential canditate and Prime Minister Succes Masra casts his vote in N'djamena's district of Abena. The prime minister who is facing junta leader Mahamat Idriss Deby has been denounced as a stooge by critics in the absence of any other serious challengers. IMAGES
Panamanian presidential candidate for the Democratic Change party (Cambio Democrático) Romulo Roux votes in the country's presidential elections. The vote comes as Panama is grappling with deep-rooted corruption, a severe drought that has hobbled its economically critical Panama Canal, and a stream of US-bound migrants passing through its jungles. IMAGES
Speaker of parliament and presidential candidate Peter Pellegrini votes in the second round of Slovakia's presidential election in the capital Bratislava. Final pre-election polls put Pellegrini, a Ukraine-sceptic backed by the ruling populists, and pro-Western candidate Ivan Korcok neck-and-neck, with Pellegrini gaining 51% of the vote and Korcok 49%. IMAGES
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