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South Africa's president Cyril Ramaphosa casts his ballot in the Hitekani Primary School in Soweto. The leader says the ANC knows "what the problems are" and wants to correct them "this time around". IMAGES
Ukraine's comedian-turned-president Volodymyr Zelensky casts his vote during the Parliamentary elections. Zelensky's newly-created party is expected to win the largest share of the votes in the election that should usher in a new era in the country dominated up to now by politicians who grew up when the country was part of the Soviet Union. IMAGES
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has been in power for 20 years, votes in Istanbul during the presidential elections. A former mayor of Istanbul (1994-1998), Erdogan rose to power in 2003 after the Justice and Development Party (AKP, Islamo-conservative) he founded won the elections the previous year. IMAGES
Former president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy votes in the 16th district of Paris, shortly after the opening of the polling stations for the first round of the presidential election. IMAGES
The outgoing president of the Ile-de-France region Valérie Pécresse (an ex-member of Les Républicains party and member of Libres!), votes in Vélizy-Villacoublay, near Paris, for the first round of regional and departmental elections, in which she is running for re-election. IMAGES