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Venezuela's opposition leader Maria Corina Machado arrives at Caracas polling station to cast her ballot, as the country votes between continuity in President Nicolas Maduro or change in rival Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia amid high tension following the incumbent's threat of a "bloodbath" if he loses. IMAGES
Biram Dah Abeid, a human rights activist and one of the incumbent president's main rivals votes in Nouakchott in Mauritania's presidential election. IMAGES
The leader of South Africa's radical leftist opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EEF) party, Julius Malema, votes in the country's general election in the northeastern city of Polokwane. More than 27 million voters are registered for the most uncertain poll since the African National Congress (ANC) led the nation out of apartheid rule. IMAGES
Former leftist prime minister Alexis Tsipras casts his vote in the second round of Greece's general elections at a polling station in Athens, with the leader of the opposition Syriza party facing an uphill battle to overturn a more than 20 percentage point deficit against conservative front-runner Kyriakos Mitsotakis. IMAGES
The leader of Turkey's opposition, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, casts his vote at a polling station in Ankara. Polls suggest the 74-year-old secular opposition leader is within touching distance of breaking the 50-percent threshold needed to win in the first round. IMAGES