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Added on the 28/01/2023 15:56:11 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Retired NATO general Petr Pavel gives a speech to his crowd of supporters after winning the Czech presidential election. Pavel, a former paratrooper, won 58 percent of votes while his rival billionaire former prime minister Andrej Babis scored 42 percent, with 99 percent of the vote counted, according to the Czech Statistical Office. IMAGES
Retired Czech army general and candidate in the 2023 presedential election, Petr Pavel, votes in the village of Cernoucek as the polling stations have just opened for the election's first round. Pavel, 61, served as the chief of the Czech general staff and chair of NATO's military committee and is a former paratrooper decorated as a hero of the Serbo-Croatian war. He is facing a billionaire and an academic in a likely two-round vote seen as too close to call. IMAGES
Retired NATO general Petr Pavel votes in the Czech presidential election run-off in which he is expected to beat billionaire former prime minister Andrej Babis. The victor will replace Milos Zeman, an outspoken and divisive politician who nursed close ties with Moscow before making a U-turn when Russia invaded Ukraine last year. Former paratrooper Pavel topped final opinion polls with 58-59 percent support, compared with 41-42 percent for Babis. IMAGES
Lithuania votes Sunday in a presidential election dominated by security concerns with the main candidates all agreed the NATO and EU member should boost defence spending to counter the perceived threat from neighbouring Russia. 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